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    1. Eric Medlin‏ @MedlinWrites Apr 20

      Eric Medlin Retweeted Jeet Heer

      Left position on this: -"Abolish the police!" -"Ok, just defund it." -"Who said defund? We meant reform it." -"Nobody ever said we would defund the police, lol you're crazy." -"Why do you keep saying that we wanted to defund the police?" -"If you mention it again we're screwed."https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1516786026550906889 …

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      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      Good thread on how Democratic centrists keep beating the dead horse of "defund the police" to the detriment of the party (because they would rather rule over a losing party than be partners in a winning coalition). https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1516777032075694092 …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 20
      Replying to @MedlinWrites

      "Defund the police" was always a marginal position advocated by a few activists & a scattering of lawmakers (mostly at municipal level). It was blown into national thing by GOP rightwingers & Dem centrists, out of a desire to beat down reform.

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        2. Eric Medlin‏ @MedlinWrites Apr 20
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          "Defund the police" was the *moderate* position among activists and the left writ large and was supported by a number of national figures. The left position was abolition. Yes, Joe Biden opposed it, but many other leading Dems winked and nodded at it to placate activists.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 20
          Replying to @MedlinWrites

          Biden is the party's standard bearer, he literally ran on giving more money to the police, which is what he's done. And Dems now routinely ignore police killings. Dems as a whole are pretty reactionary on these issues

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        2. Darrell  🇺🇦‏ @BlackMadness317 Apr 20
          Replying to @HeerJeet @MedlinWrites

          Lol literally every left aligned organization/group came out in favor of it. People who pointed out how dumb/toxic it was were either fired or shouted down.

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        3. Eric Medlin‏ @MedlinWrites Apr 20
          Replying to @BlackMadness317 @HeerJeet

          You can say it was wrong, and Jeet has done so consistently. But saying "almost nobody" supported it doesn't line up with what happened.

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        1. Frank Neuville‏ @FrankNeuville Apr 20
          Replying to @HeerJeet @MedlinWrites

          What this election is about is how much more brutal should the police be.

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        1. goldnecklace‏ @goldnecklace2 Apr 20
          Replying to @HeerJeet @MedlinWrites

          “Defund the police” was literally the mantra. If what they meant was actually “reform the police and spend money where needed to make communities safer” they should have said that!

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        1. Rutile-Core 🥫  🌽 🧱‏ @CoreRutile Apr 20
          Replying to @HeerJeet @MedlinWrites

          It was the demand of the largest civil rights protest in US history.

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