According to the Gateway Pundit, the issue took center stage on Greg Gutfeld’s program, where the Fox News host highlighted what many on the right see as a glaring contradiction in progressive ideology. “You got to hand it to the Democrats,” he said. “On one hand, they think a child can handle the decision to lop off their genitals, but then on the other, they think black people can’t get a photo ID.”
That stark contrast underscores a broader conservative concern: the left insists minors can consent to irreversible medical procedures, yet simultaneously portrays minority adults as incapable of obtaining the same identification required for countless routine activities.
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Gutfeld sharpened his critique by airing a clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer furiously denouncing the Republican-backed SAVE Act, which is designed to safeguard elections by tightening ID and citizenship verification. “The SAVE Act is an abomination,” Schumer declared, branding it “Jim Crow 2.0 across the country,” before vowing, “We are going to do everything we can to stop it.” For many conservatives, such language is not only inflammatory but deeply misleading, trivializing real historical injustices to score partisan points against common-sense election safeguards.
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From there, Gutfeld dismantled the left’s analogy between voter ID and segregation-era oppression. “To them, showing an ID to vote is no different than forcing people to drink from separate water fountains,” he said, noting how absurd that sounds when compared with everyday requirements. “Meanwhile, you need an ID to buy Sudafed, rent a U-Haul, and date Bill Belichick.” The implication is clear: if identification is reasonable for cold medicine and truck rentals, it is certainly reasonable for choosing the nation’s leaders.
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The facts, as Gutfeld emphasized, are not cooperating with Democratic talking points. He cited polling showing that voter ID enjoys broad, bipartisan, and multiracial support, then played a clip of CNN data analyst Harry Enten reporting how “85% of white people favor it, 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans favor it,” concluding that “the bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country.” Even on a liberal network, the data undercuts the narrative that ID laws are some fringe, right-wing obsession.
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Guy Benson of Fox News, appearing on the same episode, reinforced the political bind Democrats have created for themselves by clinging to opposition that most voters view as unreasonable. With “most of the country” backing voter ID while Democratic leaders smear it as “Jim Crow 2.0,” the gap between elite rhetoric and public opinion continues to widen.
As conservatives argue, that disconnect raises an unavoidable question: if nearly everyone agrees on the basic fairness of voter ID, why are Democrats so determined to block it—and what, exactly, are they trying to protect?
