Just think, there are people who got all high and mighty about low-reality “zero voter fraud!” campaigns to suppress the vote, but who now give full-throated support for ICE operations that are wrongly targeting (if not outright abducting) U.S. citizens.

Tolerance for margin of error is a funny thing. Unless you’re too dumb to see through the real motivation for the “voter fraud” b.s., and your insistence on spotless performance happens to rise and fall in conjunction with whatever screws over brown people.

Then it’s not.

It’s entirely fine to consider yourself a “law and order” type of person, unless you’re supporting the crew who fires DOJ prosecutors with non specific cause given, for the audacity of doing their jobs in service to the Constitution after January 6.

At which point, it’s not.

Trying to come off as the “good guy” with your Democratic colleagues across the aisle by talking out of mic range about this crappy bill is fine, I guess.

Oops. It’s not.

According to a recent Fox News(!) poll, 25% of Republicans and 90% of independents don’t like the bill.

For trying-to-stay-elected purposes, is a quarter of your own party and 90% of the swing-vote population, like, a lot? It seems like a lot.

Related, it must be nice to be Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, enjoying a reputation as a “moderate Republican” among the lazier press corps and the likewise moderately inattentive in general. Such a rare perch and the frequent media spotlight that comes with it might even lead a senator to believe that it’s possible to vote for this crappy bill and maintain — or even deserve — that reputation.

Sure, she doesn’t like all the damage it’ll do, but hey, voting to advance the bill while strenuously objecting enough to, uh, maybe raise some amendments … surely that’s sufficient to get her off the hook, right?