Commentary Little did I know when I wrote in this space three weeks ago (see “Lies That Democrats Tell” in The Epoch Times of March 19, 2021) about the preposterous claim that “Republicans want to go back to Jim Crow,” that this was about to become the latest progressive article of faith—reported over and over again in the media as if it were a simple matter of fact, for blatantly partisan political purposes. When I first spotted the claim, in the headline to a column by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in the UK Guardian, I thought it so obvious a lie that only a Guardian-reader could believe it. Mr. Reich himself had framed the proposition more carefully than the headline writer, writing that the defeat of the Democrats’ attempt to nationalize our elections in their “For the People Act,” known as H.R.1, would be “the biggest setback” to …