"If by American democracy we mean a pluralistic, multiracial society of political and social equals, then American democracy as we know it began with the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965...It’s this America that [Trump and his supporters are] fighting to destroy with their attacks on immigration, civil rights laws, higher education and the very notion of a pluralistic society of equals": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE8.fwOR.BbDUJP-210DI&smid=url-share