The big lie works — until it doesn’t.
The lie, in this case, is President Joe Biden’s charge that the changes in Georgia’s election law passed by the majority-Republican Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on April 1 are “Jim Crow on steroids.” This was repeating his March 25 press conference statement that the law “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”
This isn’t the first time Biden has charged Republicans with over-the-top manifestations of racism of the sort that haven’t been common in decades or even centuries. During the 2012 campaign, he told a predominantly black audience that Mitt Romney “wants to put y’all back in chains.”
That, of course, was wrong, and so was Biden’s claim that the Georgia law closed off voting after 5 p.m. Even Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler awarded Biden the maximum four Pinocchios.
That didn’t stop Atlanta-based CEOs from gratuitously adding their ignorant voices to the chorus, including Delta Air Lines’s Ed Bastian (total 2019 pay: $17 million) and Coca-Cola’s Britain-born James Quincey (total 2019 pay: $18 million).
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