Despite generally fierce polarization, bipartisan agreement on criminal justice is staring to assume a familiar shape. That's great news for America’s police, writes zakcheneyrice
As Senate Democrats this week moved forward with a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Republicans did their best to enliven the proceedings with political theater. To the Dems’ bemusement, GOPers demanded votes on amendments that were meant to attach a public-relations cost to Joe Biden’s signature legislative effort.
But this night of theater was meaningful in other ways. A year ago the U.S. underwent a “racial reckoning” that was supposed to change how people understood the role of race in American society, and policing in particular. So far, congressional Democrats have made more progress flushing money into cops’ pockets, and laughing off the loftiest demands of the movement at the center of the upheaval, than they’ve made fulfilling even its most modest requests.
The scope and stridency of the outcry after George Floyd’s murder was encouraging. But it suggested that a unique, and therefore tenuous, confluence of factors had made it possible, including a then-novel pandemic that the government was openly lying about; a president who inspired anything from disappointment to rabid loathing in most Americans; and a rapid-fire sequence of horrific police killings.
The greater barrier to progress proved to be boring: the Democrats being the Democrats, and the Republicans beings the Republicans. Rather than continue to apply pressure, Democratic Party leaders became convinced that the GOP’s smears claiming they wanted to defund the police cost them crucial votes in the last election.
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