What Does It Tell Us That Nobody Stands By “Defund the Police”?
Nobody admits to having said it -- did I make the phrase up?
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Recently, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was asked about comments he made in 2020 about defunding the police.
That is a sanewashing master class. That wasn’t the run-of-the-mill ten dollar in-and-out sanewashing package: That was a bumper-to-bumper deep sanity cleanse, wax, and buff — you could eat off that dumbass Peak Woke statement! My favorite part was “Do you disagree with investing in libraries?” — that’s the socialist motte and bailey gambit taken to its apotheosis. I wonder: Do people buy that? If I said “WE MUST MURDER ALL METHODISTS AND BUILD A BRIDGE OUT OF THEIR BONES!!!”, when people object, could I say “Oh, so you don’t support infrastructure improvements”? El-Sayed’s position seems to have gone from “let’s spend significantly less money on police” to “let’s spend significantly more money on police” — he did, after all, bring up pensions, the ravenous beast that stalks every municipal budget — yet he claims that his position hasn’t changed.
