It's Finally Happening | Asmongold TV

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill requiring American citizens to present proof of citizenship in person when registering to vote—and every time they update their registration information. Asmongold's reaction is blunt and unapologetic: he thinks this is excellent policy, and the arguments against it are defending incompetence. The central tension of the episode is whether making it harder to vote is a bug or a feature of democracy.

The case for voter suppression as a feature, not a bug

Asmongold's argument is not subtle. He believes that roughly 20% of the voting population is too cognitively impaired or lazy to participate meaningfully in elections. His evidence is anecdotal and circular: if someone cannot figure out how to update their name on a birth certificate or scrape together $140 for a passport, they are "probably so cognitively impaired that I don't think that not only should you not be making decisions for other people, you shouldn't even be making decisions for yourself." He extends this to married women who changed their names and no longer have a birth certificate matching their legal name—69 million of them, according to the transcript. His response: "If you can't figure out how to update your name, you're a retard. And if you're a retard, I don't want you to vote."