Operation Eagle Eye: A Republican Strategy for Reducing Minority Voting

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Republican strategy for reducing minority voting was already established in Arizona. Now Republicans were going to take it national. They called it Operation Eagle Eye. The Metropolitan Director of the Goldwater Committee says all voters, both Republican and Democratic,. But Democrats say it is merely a form of voter intimidationand should be called Operation Evil Eye.

Republicans claim the election was stolen. They use those claims to justify suppressing people’s right to vote. All of it happening amid a national reckoning on race. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson tell the story of a time uncannily similar to our own – in the early 1960s. And how it’s both a parallel to our present moment and the origin of conflicts playing out today.

Featuring Guests:

Rick Perlstein, historian, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Sherrilyn Ifill, Vernon Jordan Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University and former President and Director-Counsel of LDF.

Jim Brosnahan, lawyer and author of Justice At Trial: Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases