Blanche’s AG audition gets weirder with comment about mandatory IDs at restaurants

When Republicans make the case for new voter ID laws, they invariably argue, “If people have to show ID in order to [fill in the blank], then they should have to show ID in order to vote.”

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These arguments tend to fall apart rather quickly, especially given that voter ID laws intend to address a problem that doesn’t exist in any meaningful way.

But GOP partisans keep trying variations on the argument anyway. Take acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, for example.

During his latest appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer, who’s launched an unsubtle campaign to persuade the president to nominate him as former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s successor, argued that people should stop talking about Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices gutting the Voting Rights Act and start instead talking about voter ID.

“Every time you walk into a restaurant or a club, you have to show your ID,” the acting attorney general told host Kristen Welker. “How about you have to show your ID to vote? That’s not anything that’s crazy, and that’s what we should be talking about.”

So, a few things.

First, treating the gutting of the Voting Rights Act as an inconvenience to be overlooked is ridiculous.