The Deep State's 60-Year War on Black Americans -- and the 2024 Populist Opportunity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Finally, it was Trump who, in 2018, took the biggest step to unwind the Washington-backed carceral state since its foundations were laid by the Kennedy-Johnson Administration 50 years before: reviving congressional progress on and then signing the First Step Act, which "combin[ed] new funding for anti-recidivism programs, the expansion of early-release credits for prisoners and the reduction of certain mandatory minimum sentences.
52% : In this sense, they were later-stage versions of those white working class communities soon to be mobilized by Trump.
52% : It's also this construct that contemporary "Main Street" conservatism under Trump seeks to unwind, and, on this standard, the Republican Party has a real chance to appeal to a new constituency.
46% : According to scholar Elizabeth Hinton in her recent book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, the acts mandated that, to receive funding, "employment initiatives, public schools, and grassroots organizations [would] partner with juvenile courts, police departments, and correctional facilities," in a schema in which police officers were the "frontline soldiers" of a "war on crime."

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