Representative Thompson, this sounds an awful lot like the Jim Crow that you grew up in and were born into. Based on your lived experience, would you say that these proposed voting laws are remnants of Jim Crow?
Ocasio-Cortez compares the proposed voting laws to Jim Crow laws.
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I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.
During this time, and especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the Overton window.
What Republicans do is that they try to make working people like you and me feel like we’re just one step outside of that club, that if we just work a little bit harder, maybe we’ll be a billionaire too.
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