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385 | Wesley Lowery: Backlash Politics from Obama 2008 to the Summer of 2020 and Beyond

The Realignment

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The Defund the Police Debate

The term Black Lives Matter is going to offend a certain very specific white suburban voter. It seems to me though that the defund the police rhetoric specifically edged too far into the, this is pushing the status quo, but it kind of upset the apple cart in a way that wasn't inherently helpful. By 2020, meanwhile, we've seen thousands of police departments actively publishing the data and almost every police department in the country is putting body cameras on.

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