"These activists are of course wrong. We of course love our police and want them to be able to do their jobs of fighting crime without some of these other distractions, which is why we're going to put some resources into other programs to take the burden off them."I think this is a fair question! I'd say it added "shift funding from policing to other social services" as a policy option.
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) June 10, 2022
But rather than take it up as the reasonable position it is, centrists spent two years shouting down activists who came up with ithttps://t.co/ttYXMVG8sg
Distancing yourself from the crazy activists while still addressing the issues is the simplest political play. It's also win win! It's the basic centrist-leftist kayfabe that everyone seems to have forgotten about! You do the right thing (a bit, at least) while The Left still yells at you so you can say you're making those people mad!
Now they refuse to even do a little bit of the right thing and instead keep talking about how their party is filled with villainous traitors and scum and nobody should vote for them, but somehow that's because the villainous traitors and scum are bad at messaging.
They aren't just assholes, the are incompetent. They are going to go on teevee and talk about "defund" for the next 20 years!