Sometimes, majority rules. Sometimes it’s just cruel. Some people can’t seem to tell the difference, writes Clarence Page.
Gloria Johnson, from left, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson arrive at Fisk University in Nashville on April 7, 2023, to meet Vice President Kamala Harris. Jones and Pearson were expelled from the Tennessee House the day before. Johnson survived an effort to expel her.Some people can’t seem to tell the difference.
The “Tennessee Three” also remind us to beware of powerful interests that pervert democracy with what some of the nation’s founders called “the tyranny of the majority,” or these days, “supermajority.” Tennessee’s Republican supermajority didn’t hear that message and, as a result, triggered a national wave of outrage, particularly in liberal and progressive circles, but among fair-minded moderates too.Sure, abuses of democratic rule are by no means limited to one party, as I’ve seen in many years of Democratic dominance in blue Chicago and Illinois.
Remember how the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade helped spur an angry pro-choice turnout in the November midterms? Suddenly the Democrats found themselves winning a majority in the Senate, and suffering fewer losses than expected in the House.
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