Unpopular & cancelable opinion: the DNC types blaming Dem losses on running on "socialized medicine," & "defunding the police" are disingenuous hacks & ideologies pretending to be pragmatic. Nobody ran on Socialized Medicine, which is a Right Wing & Trumpian framing Dems only...
adopt to stigmatize the incredibly popular program that is #medicareforall. BUT... "defund the police" & "abolish the police" are not good slogans. I don't know what the better slogan is but people support funding and re-investing in programs that have been slashed & whose...
functions have dangerously & harmfully been outsourced to the police. When you explain that police are doing jobs for which they're not trained, which strains, kills and endangers communities, they support reinvesting the resources.