The ratings competition between CNN and MSNBC took a back seat on Monday as CNN’s Dana Bash traveled over to Inside with Jen Psaki to promote her new book on the 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election and allege that the imagined voter suppression of today is on par with the real voter suppression of back then when such tactics included literal race massacres.
Bash and co-author David Fisher titled their book America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History, and Bash recalled to Psaki that the Democrats of that era, “were trying to do whatever they could to suppress the vote. The new black vote and in Louisiana, and other states, but this particular story is how they were successful in doing so. They realized the only way to keep society from changing so drastically was to make sure that blacks didn’t…
