The New York Times' op-ed piece on police funding is one of many like it over the years. Burns takes polling results and twists them into an anti-defund argument or a proPolice pro-carceral refund more fund argument, he says. "It's like a bathtub referendum: It's either going to be cops or it's nothing," Burns adds.
In this public News Brief, we break down Johnson's "surprise" win and how it undermines every lazy media trope involving local Democratic politics pushed over the last two years.