Democratic Rep. Cori Bush told The Breakfast Club that Democrats can’t be afraid of saying “defund the police” and explaining it to people just because the GOP doesn’t like it:
Here’s what she says:
But we also cannot be afraid to talk about what Defund The Police means. You know we cannot, and that’s my issue.
It’s like, you know, the anger cannot be, you know, ‘oh defund the police makes people….it pushes people back….it makes people feel a type of way….we don’t want to say that…you know because the Republicans are coming against us’.
NO! They don’t get to tell us what our message is! Fix the problem and then I won’t have to say Defund The Police.
This is funny to me because I don’t want to tell them what their messaging is either. I want Cori Bush and her fellow Democrats to keep talking about Defund The Police because, in my opinion, that’s the quickest way to irrelevancy.
So yeah, go ahead with your messaging. We’ll be on the side reminding people of the true consequences of the radical Defund The Police movement and how it will make everyone incredibly unsafe. And then we’ll see how you do at the polls.