The Republican Party is absolutely engaged in voter suppression tactics, that much is true. But for Al Franken to act like the Democratic Party isn’t guilty of the exact same tactics is stunning, but not surprising. Whether holding closed primaries (preventing Independents from voting) or outright purging voters from the rolls, Democrats have been engaging in voter suppression for years, if not decades.

Again, there are many examples of this. But the most egregious and indisputable example was when the New York City Board of Elections de-registered 200,000 voters from the rolls in 2016. Sanders and Clinton had been in an extremely competitive primary until New York delivered a death blow to the Sanders campaign. It was all downhill after that. 117,000 of those purged voters were from Brooklyn alone, where Bernie Sanders was born and raised, and was expected to have a very strong voter turnout after having just held an incredible rally of 30,000 in Brooklyn.