"Defund the police" is the new "Obamacare": The Texas #cjreform landscape post-election

[discocrisco01]

Now that the most divisive presidential election in 50 years is over and, win, lose or (largely) draw, everybody can take a deep breath, it's time for criminal-justice reformers to peek our heads above the wreckage to see what remains of a state and local agenda after a tumultuous year and a grueling election season which, at the state level in Texas, resulted in a complete stalemate, from a partisan perspective.
Criminal-justice reform is the new Obamacare

It's been quite a year for criminal-justice reformers. And we've learned some things. Although the public doesn't like the phrase "defund the police," they tend to like all the policies that might allow police to be defunded. Grits sees this a bit like "Obamacare," which of course, really, was the "Affordable Care Act." Republicans branded it with a president who was unpopular with their base and then railed against it for years, passing dozens of weird, Pyrrhic votes to abolish it. For a while, "Obamacare" polled very badly.

Read more at https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2020/11/defund-police-is-new-obamacare-texas.html

[redstatebluegirl]

1. It was a stupid term to use for what we really want to do.

Words matter, I knew the minute I heard defund the police that we were going to see it over and over again in ads against us. The masses are not very bright, they are easily scared by this type of language.

[Lunabell]

2. Who was the idiot that came up with "defund the police"?

They need a swirly, and fast.

How about reform, not defund?

[JCMach1]

3. I get it they wanted a new term/word as 'reform' is synonymous

With doing nothing...

However, defund was a softball to the Right