SAVE Act: Chuck Schumer Tries To Paint Republicans With His Party's Horrible Jim Crow Past

Posted • May 1, 2025: It’s always interesting how Democrats bring up their party’s sins and try to attribute them to the Republican Party. Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer is trying to disparage the SAVE Act by comparing it to his party’s Jim Crow past. Many on X are asking Schumer how proof of citizenship ties into the racist policies once put forth by leaders of his party in days long past. —— Chuck Schumer, how is a bill requiring voters to offer proof of citizenship *anything* like the racist policies Democrats embraced following the Civil War? I’d really like to know And so would the 80% of Americans who agree that we need the SAVE Act! —— The Dems talking about Jim Crow as if R’s are the Party of Jim Crow is WILD yet ON-BRAND. Democrats are the Party of Jim Crow. That makes it that much more inexcusable when they throw that accusation around irresponsibly.

The Democrat Party owns Jim Crow. They can never give it away. Democrats seem stuck on this idea that the only time Americans don’t have to prove their identity is when they decide who leads our country. It’s only a bad thing if you want to cheat. (…)

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