Let's (be) perfectly clear... Democrats do not want to de-fund the police...

[Ms. Toad]

61. There is a distinction, though -

CRT is a long-standing, relatively well defined but complex entity - weaponized by being turned into a bullet pointand moved into the political arena by Republicans who are more clever than we are at weaponizing things. (Because it came from academia, that also means a fair number of Democrats are trying to deweaponize something they don't undrstand.)

Defund the Police is a recent outgrowth of activism - that was originally intended as a bullet point way to capture a concept, but those who use it never settled on a common understanding of what was behind the bullet point. So, while the goal of capturing the essence of something in a few words is something Democrats desperately need to get better at (so good political instincts), when the bullet point is being simultaneously touted by folks on our side as exactly what it means - and not at all what it means, it was trivialto weaponize it.

More than a quick response messaging platform that responds to lies, we need to get better at concise messaging in the first place.