People who say a Biden administration would be no better than Trump need to grapple with this. Obama was bad on police violence and racist prosecutors early, but under pressure from Black Lives Matter, he got much better, putting many cities under DoJ consent decrees. Biden..
Biden would be a much better target for BLM activists than Trump is, and many of those consent decrees — which means federal oversight of local police forces — would return under Biden. If all else is equal, this alone seems reason to believe Biden would be better.
And if your response is that, hey, Biden spent his whole career creating the conditions that have led to this, yes, that’s true, and he should be eternally condemned for that, but it has nothing to do with whether he can be pressured to do the right thing now
Exactly, and this is a good thing
It’s not about this tweet, it’s about the legit good record of the Obama administration from 2014-2016 on these issues. That’s not much, but it suggests he can be pushed there again
