Jonathan Bernstein: “Democrats in Congress have recently secured massive amounts of funding for state and local governments, over Republican objections, with a fair amount of that money specifically intended for local police departments that pandemic-strapped cities couldn’t afford.”
“So why am I cranky?”
“I’m cranky because Republicans reacted to Psaki with … I don’t quite know how to describe it. Outrage? Disbelief? They’re just incredulous that Democrats could consider their support for directing federal funds to local police departments — and Republican opposition to those efforts — relevant to the question of defunding the police. They aren’t claiming that the money didn’t actually go to the police; they just seem to consider ‘defunding the police’ a sort of metaphysical position that has nothing to do with actual police-department budgets.”
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