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And there's an article, I don't know, say in the New York Times that encapsulates everything

shitty about police funding reporting.

And Adam, you actually recently wrote about a New York Times article, kind of an opinion

piece masked as straight news on your sub stack, which everyone should check out.

That's the column.

But Adam, why don't you lay out for us this new egregious example of a trope that we've

seen for years?

Well, yeah, so obviously there is a defund the police movement in the summer of 2020.

It was endorsed by about, I don't know, five elected Democrats.

Pretty much went away as like an actual thing that was ever going to happen, but it's

now become this, I believe, very much a kind of right wing watchword.

And it's a way of kind of doing a little bit of a micro-willy horton whenever you want

to, right?

You sort of, whenever you need to kind of wink and nod, like I'm not going to be one

of those liberals, you say I oppose to fund the police.

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