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Even worse than that the republicans seized on this message and casted the democrats as wanting crime to go up and chaos on the streets. It's how NYC ended up with a corrupt police chief as a mayor and Trump got reelected. Honestly the messaging of "defund the police" was god awful and set back the progressives by years.
100%. Besides choosing to appease MAGA, rather than resist it with every means possible, the "Defund the Police" message was the biggest blunder. It was a poorly chosen phrase, and a poorly managed messaging campaign. It handed MAGA a perfect club to wield against us.
Another stupid, and easily predictable, self-own by the Dems.
It wasn't, it made moves. The problem was that the left are just not smart about these things so they failed. The left have an issue where they have no idea how to apply consistent pressure. They're just not smart. They are resting their laurels on the studies that say leftist are more educated and assuming it means them.