9:37 PM: …
Old Guy Who Yells A Lot Sick Of Listening To Old Guy Who Yells A Lot
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) April 15, 2016
9:42 PM: I feel like almost all of the Democrats’ debates have been desperate efforts to find things these two disagree on.
9:43 PM: Hillary’s actually wrong on this point. The states didn’t follow in the federal government’s wake. The federal government followed the states.
9:45 PM: I also think she’s wrong to say these were unintended consequences. That’s really not the case. It was a period of very high crime. People were scared. On top of that there was rank politicization and fear-mongering, efforts to use crime to win elections. The crime was real; the fear was real; the demagoguery was real. The country wanted to throw away the key for a lot of people. And no, it wasn’t just whites. Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted for the bill. Now, I think you cannot take the 94 crime bill out of its historical and political context of the 94 crime bill. Law and order politics was a product of the right which Democrats were largely following. All that said, these weren’t unintended consequences. Most of these consequences were intended. They just look very different now in an era of historically low crime rates.
