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
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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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Not trying to blame all on Fox. Arguing for an infrastructural diagnosis/response that includes both structures to bring a wider (geographically, demographically) array of people into Dem-side activism, & better structures (media, social media, f2f) to connect outward to voters
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I share your enthusiasm for the second part (Frankensteining together some working infrastructure for reaching voters), but I don't think any amount of it helps if party elites and activists choose to talk about unpopular stuff rather than put their strongest issues forward
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