Joe Biden “Strongly Supports” Moving MLB All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Due To New Georgia Election Law

Welcome to the sixth or seventh party system.

CBS News:

“President Biden says he’d “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball All-Star game out of Atlanta as a rebuke to strict new voting restrictions in the state. The president said on ESPN Wednesday night that the curbs are “just not right.”

“This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they are doing in Georgia and 40 other states,” he said. “What it’s all about — imagine passing a law saying you cant provide water or food for  someone standing in a line to vote. Can’t do that. Come on? Or you close a polling place at 5 o’clock when working people just get off? …”

NPR:

“One week after it was signed into law, Georgia’s Republican-led voting overhaul is facing backlash from a growing number of corporate voices, including several of the state’s most prominent companies and Major League Baseball.

Critics of the legislation say it will restrict voter access and disproportionately affects people of color, with President Biden slamming it as “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”

In a Wednesday interview with ESPN, Biden said he would support MLB moving its All-Star Game in July out of Atlanta. Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, first raised the idea last week, and it’s not without precedent — as ESPN noted, the NBA moved its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte after North Carolina enacted a bill limiting anti-discrimination protections.

“I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly,” Biden said. “I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They’re leaders. … This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia and 40 other states. …”

The Hill:

“Georgia Republicans on Wednesday took a last-minute swipe at Delta Air Lines after the company’s chief executive criticized a massive measure overhauling voting rules in a state that narrowly voted for President Biden in 2020.

In the waning hours of the legislative session, the Georgia state House passed a bill to repeal a tax break on jet fuel, aimed squarely at one of the state’s largest companies and the largest operator of flights into and out of Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. …

The provision did not pass the state Senate, so Delta will keep its tax break.  …”

Here you have on display a buffet of the new and the old:

• Woke capitalism
• Big Business explicitly on the side of the Democrats
• Big Business and Democrats trying to bully state legislatures
• Joe Biden virtue signaling about how Georgia’s new election reform law is “Jim Crow on steroids” which is hilarious. Have we gone back to the days of Tom Watson, Eugene Talmadge and Richard Russell?
• Big Business explicitly aligned with progressive activists
• Populist fury
• Republicans in the Georgia House passing a timid repeal of a tax break on jet fuel which was shot down by the Georgia Senate
• Georgia Republicans trying to punish Delta like they did a few years ago over the NRA

It has been building up to this a few years now.

See also the fallout from Kristi Noem’s vetoing the “trans women” in women’s sports bill in South Dakota while similar measures have been passed in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.