"'I think that Democrats have to get it around their heads that Americans are far more hawkish on crime than they think that are,' he told Dana Bash."

Democrats are hawkish on crime in ways that don't make sense to Republicans: Education jobs, housing, opportunity. Republicans carry water for criminality by cutting support for education, jobs, housing, and opportunity.

Republicans are only hawkish on crime when it's black and brown people doing the crime. Republicans aren't really hawkish on crime when it's rich white men. Republicans just love them an easy scapegoat and a virtue signaling witch hunt.

Does the average voter go for that? In certain circumstances yes, and they'd apply it to powerful white men too.

And that's why Republicans can't ever release the Epstein Files.

"The figures showed Trump's net approval rating for crime sitting at +1 for his second term as of August, in contrast to the -13 he secured during his first."

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All this, while crime was actually down under Biden. All this while Republicans were lying and saying crime is on the rise.

So what this really tells us is the Propaganda Model remains the enduring legacy of the Twentieth Century.

Serious George Orwell shit, and Boaz eats it up.

That doesn't help the person at 11pm with a gun or a knife in their face.
#8 | Posted by boaz

But it does, by giving the person with a gun or a knife better things to do at 11pm.

"Republicans are only hawkish on crime when it's black and brown people doing the crime."

"Well, they are 13% of the population doing 60% of the crimes."

Listen:

If whites were policed the same as blacks, if we moved police from black areas to white areas, those numbers would go down for the blacks and up for the whites.
Do you deny that?

And if whites were as poor as browns, the white crime rate would go up.
Do you deny that?

And if blacks were as wealthy as whites, the black crime rate would go down.
Do you deny that?

Or is your explanation for why blacks are so criminal, is because the black race is inherently inferior to whites.
Do you deny that?