Another dispatch from the far fringes - this time Voter ID is a “coup d’etat,”  an effort to illegally overthrow the government. 

Wilmer J. Leon III says “They are not using the military; it is a bloodless coup. A small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus is attempting to effect regime change by corrupting the American democratic process.”  No rant would be complete without citation to the phony Brennan Center study on Voter ID.

The paranoia is both comic and strategically damaging to voter ID opponents.  Eighty percent of Americans support Voter ID.  Near 100 percent have some form of photo ID.  Use of photo ID is a common experience to nearly all adults.  Raging about coup d’etats in the context of using photo ID will only hurt the cause.  Once upon a time, it might have made sense to whip up the paranoid base into a frenzy with such over the top nuttiness when nobody else was paying attention.   But the debate has broken containment.  Regular Americans are paying attention and are perplexed by the paranoia.