Nate Silver looks at a NY Magazine piece that goes into something that a lot of media types do NOT seem to get….
Blacks and other minorities do NOT want to ‘defund the police’ in large numbers…
The embrace of such stupidity by some has cost Democrats votes from White and Black voters…
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders came out against ‘defunding’….
Violent protests against police a while ago may have had some people demanding less in police budgets….
But?
In the last year of the pandemic?
Crime has generally risen across the country….
Few places have actually cut their law enforcement budgets….
People NEED COPS to keep things safe and they will vote FOR those who will promise to keep them safe…
They just do not want ‘bad’ cops…
@NateSilver538
This seems important. “Defund the police” may really have hurt Democrats’ standing with nonwhite voters. nymag.com/intelligencer/
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
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The broader implication in here is that Democrats should take it seriously when many nonwhite Dems identify themselves as moderate or conservative. And it’s usually conservative on social/cultural issues more than on economics. If Dems lose those voters, they’re kind of screwed.
@FuriousBrad
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It’s a perfect example of the right being really good at controlling the narrative. “Defund the police” is distressingly easy to mischaracterize as “abolish the police,” and proponents of the effort totally failed to communicate what they were really trying to accomplish.