https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26090966/mitch-mcconnell-power-grab-election-day-holiday/?fbclid=IwAR2qNdtW2Gmt0czPia-hv5ziEp4FNJbJlQBLR3jKLUO_JG5cCGrfCP4EKnQ
"There was on Wednesday one of those moments in Mitch McConnell's guardianship of the United States Senate when the least excusable man in government decides, what the hell, I'll just say what everybody knows anyway. It has been conservative Republican political strategy since the mid-1970s to suppress the votes of the classes of voters to which conservatism declines to appeal. This had the added benefit of rolling back the hard-won achievements of the civil-rights movement, an episode in history that modern conservative Republicanism came to consider an aberration to the natural order of things. On Wednesday, while the Senate was debating a House bill aimed at making voting easier, as well as rolling back Republican voter-suppression laws, Mitch was particularly exercised over a proposal to make federal election day a national holiday."
