The third time will certainly not be the charm for the Voting Rights Advancement Act….
But that doesn’t mean that this time around is purely symbolic, either…. [A] s big, new progressive ideas like the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, and reparations permeate the 2020 presidential-primary conversation, the reality for Democrats is that voting rights could be the only thing everyone agrees on—and the thing necessary for all of the other potential policies to ever become reality.