OPINION — “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections,” President Donald Trump declared in a Feb. 13 Truth Social rant, “whether approved by Congress or not!”
While I oppose government ID mandates for any purpose — as did “conservatives,” at least as late as the 1990s, when it came to national requirements of the sort — I don’t consider voting a special case for which my objections need be stronger or weaker.
Voting in America is a ritual through which we flatter ourselves that we’re engaging in “democracy,” even “self-government,” when 99% of participants periodically choose between two convergent (and nearly identical) wings of the single state-approved political party.
