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Re c) Propably a result of wheighing the options here: curbing the enthusiasm of your opponent's base vs. that of yours. You loose more of your own base than y
by woodpanel 1y ago
Re c)
Propably a result of wheighing the options here: curbing the enthusiasm of your opponent's base vs. that of yours. You loose more of your own base than you're going to win from the opponents.
From this perspective, it can be quite logical why the DNC stayed silent about this. After luring your base in with "enforcing rule-of-law is racist"-rethoric, admitting to enforcing the law would be a bit of political suicide.
- analognoise 1y agoHas anybody ever said “enforcing the rule of law is racist”? This is America, we’ve had plenty of explicitly racist laws without a canard like this for “the Dems”.
- woodpanel 1y agoYou make it sound like no one ever demanded to „defund the police“
- analognoise 1y agoHow popular was “defund the police”? Do you have any facts or figures? I took “defund the police” to be a knee jerk reaction to having one of the largest prison populations per capita, the most money spent on policing, combined with a violent and racist history - a good number of people are (rightfully) fed up. I don’t think it was ever broadly popular. We could cut our police budgets by a massive amount and still be overspending on it.