Right. I don't say this to disparage or dismiss people who do want to defund the police, I don't want to shut down that conversation, but that's also not what m

Right. I don't say this to disparage or dismiss people who do want to defund the police, I don't want to shut down that conversation, but that's also not what most mainstream Democrats believe. The idea is remarkably unpopular offline. Even something that (in my mind) should be pretty uncontroversial like getting rid of cash bail is considered a radical idea by a lot of people as soon as you step off of Twitter. Biden ran on increasing police budgets, and won the primary pretty handily. People have a misplaced view of how Left the Democratic electorate (and most of the people who get elected) actually are.