Cori Bush Prepares to Make Life Harder for Democrats Ahead of 2022 Midterms – Opinion

Democrats are in a dire position heading into the midterm elections of 2022.

President Biden’s approval ratings have been tanking for months on a number of key issues, at one point hitting the low 30s, while generic Congressional ballot polls and “party preference” surveys are favoring Republicans. In some states like Georgia, where Biden was declared the winner in 2020, Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate are faring better than their Democrat opponents, suggesting that the so-called “blue wave of 2020” in the state is over.

Democrats have it worse: radical leftists, like Cori Bush (D.Mo.), who told reporters in a recent interview that she had no plans to back down from her “defund the police” message, primarily because in her view the reason House Democrats took a shellacking in 2020 was not that they were tied to the movement but because they didn’t deliver on it:

“I always tell [fellow Democrats], ‘If you all had fixed this before I got here, I wouldn’t have to say these things,’” she said.

Bush recognized that Bush’s party has to be more clear about what they mean by shifting some law enforcement funds to social services.

If Democrats lose their House majority this November, Bush says she’ll blame their inability to pass crucial pieces of legislation upon which members campaigned a year ago.

“‘Defund the police’ is not the problem,” she added. “We dangled the carrot in front of people’s faces and said we can get it done and that Democrats deliver, when we haven’t totally delivered.”

“If [Republicans] take the majority, it’s just done as far as trying to get the legislation across,” Bush said.

Bush reiterated the position via her Twitter feed:

My coworkers keep reminding us to be patient.

They keep telling us defunding the police and investing in communities won’t work.

They continue to murder Blacks because of their policies.

Let’s stop being so patronizing. Pay attention to those who are trying to help save lives.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) February 5, 2022

This is what you call “doubling down on the fail,” something Bush has shown some expertise on based on past political gifts she’s handed Republicans including when she laughed off questions in August 2021 about her having private security while doubling down on defunding the police.

Bush seems to think that repeating a lie enough will make people believe it. While that’s true to some extent, in the case of her insinuation that most people want the police defunded, she couldn’t be more wrong if she tried.

According to polls, a majority of Americans of all races support maintaining or increasing local police funding. Further, there have been Democrat-run cities that have soundly rejected defund the police efforts, like New York City with the election of Mayor Eric Adams, who opposed defunding the police, and Buffalo’s reelection of Mayor Byron W. Brown (as a write-in candidate) over a staunch defund proponent who was endorsed by Bush pal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Republicans are no doubt celebrating Bush’s pledge to keep the “defund” message up front and center going into the 2022 midterms, because considering how it backfired on House Democrats in 2020 and also how things are looking for them as it stands now, reviving the failed strategy has the potential to make the number of losses expected in November not just bad but historic.

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