I’ve made this argument many times, and many people have made it before me, but just now I was playing out an argument in my mind at the Supreme Court between, say, Justice Sotomayor and Justice Alito.
She would make all kinds of excuses denying that voter fraud is a denial of equal protection. They would, necessarily, be fatuous, because the argument is sound. One bad vote cancels out one good vote. One good vote plus one bad vote equals zero vote. There is no other honest way to look at it. It is a vote denied, and if it is allowed–explicitly or by the failure to punish it through prosecution and flipping the result–then it is legally Jim Crow, at least with regards to voting.
But she would get flustered, and eventually Alito would ask her: you WANT voter fraud don’t you?
And in the unlikely event she were honest, she would say “Yes, because it is in support of the good people, the good policies, and progress.”
And Alito could say “so dishonesty is honest when pursued for attractively packaged ends?”
She can’t say yes, so she says something like “we want to help people. That’s what we are good at.”
And Alito then asks “who is this we? Does the we include the people who live under the results of policies you can’t get enacted when the people are making the decision?”
SS: “Someone has to direct the people, because they don’t know what is good for them. The power elites lie to them.”
Alito: “Like you?”
SS: “no no no we do it for their benefit.”
Alito: “how do you know?”
SS: “Because we are EDUCATED.”
I won’t draw this out fully. You get the gist, hopefully. Basically you have an elite that wants to gain absolute power to make “the people”–which never includes them–equal. Egalitarianism is INHERENTLY an elitist creed, at least when pursued through deception, by emotionally and intellectually shallow people animated mainly by vanity and greed papered over with healthy doses of narcissism and staggering lies.