you're too cynical. surely there is a politician out there who can make us all ten to twenty years younger and reverse all of the hardships we have experienced (without wiping out our stock market gains or technological advancements, of course)

It was certainly the message in 2021, after crime had shot up dramatically on his watch, that he was the only one who could contain it.

Seeing it less now, but still seeing it, i.e. this Reddit commenter who wants Jacob to make Minneapolis feel like it did right before Jacob took over:

Obviously that sounds nice but the impulse to oppose prisons on principle makes it harder to enact real changes to help people (ie the fight against building new prisons so that New York can close rikers)

if the idea behind abolishing prisons is that you first achieve a violence free world where prisons become unnecessary, what's the point of abolishing the prisons? shouldn't we just be keeping them there until we reach that world you're creating?

Is that not a description of broken windows policing

actually now that we’ve seen how Epstein wrote sentences I can kind of see why a linguist would want to study him

I keep saying that he’s good at running a caucus, he’s just bad at talking on tv

She was getting pied in the face by immigrant rights advocates in the 2010s

which isn't to say politicians shouldn't be telegraphing disapproval. but let's be real here. the democrats should not be going all out to prevent people from realizing who they voted in