After Erasure: A Republic That Forgets on Purpose On March 31, I wrote about erasure, about how visibility itself becomes a threat in a State that prefers its citizens quiet, compliant, and undocumented. Three weeks later, the scale of that erasure has only expanded. Not in abstraction. In numbers, in bodies, in land, in law. And more dangerously, in memory. 1. The disenfranchisement In West…