It worries me that some otherwise smart & well-informed observers seem to believe that a meaningful portion of the actors who made the slogan/goal Defund the Police prominent, live within the progressive grant funding universe. I think that’s wrong in 2 different ways. [quick
] https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1408567918707810305 …
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It's easy to believe ACLU & Indivisible elevated the number of Twitter users & Beltway savants who were engaging w/Defund. I'm much less sure that their support was the key independent variable driving what median voters heard.
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NPR sure was all over it for a time. The bottom line is a lot of people in Dem world chose to talk about this and give it salience. Even the name was intentionally provocative. You can't blame everything on Fox.
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Minneapolis didn’t actually attempt it. The city council made a “pledge” to start dismantling the police, and then it went nowhere. It was all bark, no bite.
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