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PBS Promotes Author Accusing ‘Far Right’ of Attacking Voting Rights

On Tuesday’s Amanpour & Company on PBS and CNN International, Hari Sreenivasan interviewed a former editor of the far-left website Salon.com who accuses the Republican Party of a grand conspiracy theory in a book titled Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections.

Not only did he push the liberal narrative that it is racial discrimination to require voter ID, but he also exaggerated the effects of gerrymandering in favor of Republicans. 

Fill-in host Bianna Golodryga set up the segment: “And now we turn to democracy in the United States, which our next guest believes is under threat. In his new book, David Daley suggests that far-right actors, including within the Supreme Court, are controlling American elections. He describes a 50-year plot to undermine voting rights.”

In a dust-cover blurb, ultraliberal Rep. Jamie…

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