Since reaching the age of eighteen, there hasn’t been a national or local election that I’ve missed. Most times my visit to the polling takes place as soon as the polling station opens at 6am usually looking like I just crawled out of bed (because that’s what I did). You see here in New York there is no dress code for voters, as long as one is not wearing something promoting someone who is running, that’s pretty standard for most states including Missouri. But this week in Kansas City Mo., one poll watcher invented another criterion, they have to like what the voter is wearing.

During this past Tuesday’s primary Randy Thornton, a registered Republican voter in Kansas City was told he wasn’t allowed to enter the polling place because he was Make America Great (MAGA) hat on his head. Now unless I pulled a Rip Van Winkle and slept for two years, President Trump wasn’t running in this week’s GOP primary.

Thornton only wanted to perform his sacred American duty of casting his vote in the Missouri primary was told by a poll worker on Tuesday that he was not allowed to vote because he was wearing one of the president’s signature campaign hats. The Democrat poll worker was apparently triggered by the MAGA hat and, like all Democrats revealed his inner Maxine Waters by telling the voter to leave the polling place.