Jamelle Bouie

would turn a blind eye to really awful behavior, as is often the case with Trump.

It is taking existing trends and then just like running, you know, dashing down the track.

So hypocrisy in American behavior, both its own behavior and its approach to its allies, has now been embraced in a kind of nihilistic might makes right way.

But like you can see the continuity is there.

Sure.

So it's the Save America Act.

So the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility America Act is Trump's sort of current obsession.

Was it two weeks ago that he said he would not sign any new bills unless this was passed into law?

And what the Save Act ostensibly is meant to do is protect the integrity of American elections from voter fraud and non-citizen voting.

Now, this raises kind of a natural question.

Well, how serious of a problem are voter fraud and non-citizen voting?

In part because the provisions of the SAVE Act, and in particular, a pretty strict requirement to prove your citizenship in person, registering to vote, could potentially disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans.

So if that's the risk,

disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans, keeping them from exercising their right to vote, their constitutional right to vote, which although is not explicitly written out of the Constitution, I think it's heavily implied by the Constitution's amendments.

How big is this problem?

It turns out that this problem doesn't exist.

It's a fake problem.

I'll put it this way.

The Heritage Foundation conservative think tank, very conservative think tank, has a database that purports to show all the examples of voter fraud over the course of several decades across all 50 states.

And what the Heritage Foundation finds is that it happens, but effectively it's not an actual problem.