And the Grinch Put a Hand to His Ear

It should come as no surprise to anyone that "the Republican majority on the Forsyth County Board of Elections turned down a request from Winston-Salem State University students and others to reopen an early-voting site on campus for the March 15 primary during a contentious meeting on Thursday."  It's one of the reasons we here at Make It Count don't really engage in all that much Republican-bashing. People with power bending the rules in order to preserve that power isn't really news. You might as well write about the sun coming up every day--it's going to happen. The question is, and the question has always been: what are you going to do about it?

This is my favorite part of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas, " and it's a great lesson for 2016. Implicit in every Republican action so far has been a dare: "You don't have what it takes.We're going to reduce early vote, eliminate same-day registration, and require photo ID, and you won't do a thing about it but complain."

Here's a thought. When a Republican grinch puts a hand to their ear, let's make sure not to indulge their fantasies and give them what they want to hear: hopelessness, surrender, inaction.

Let's sing them a song of redemption, a song of power; and let's not sing it for them, but for us.