Thread by @emeriticus

My latest column: the Waukesha killer's radical political views, the prosecutor who set his bail "inappropriately low" once bragged that people might die due to his policies and launched a pre-dawn raid against conservative political opponents, and more.

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The media wants the Waukesha killings to be forgotten for obvious reasons. On the one hand, Darrell Brooks is a poster child of someone radicalized by the media's anti-white race narratives. Everything we know about his views confirms this. 1/

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On the other hand, Brooks killed and injured more people in Waukesha 2021 than James Fields did in Charlottesville 2017. There's also a stronger case for Brooks' intentionality than Fields, undermining the idea of "Charlottesville as racist 9/11." Waukesha was *much* worse 2/

On the other hand, DA John Chisholm's bail reform policies enabled Brooks to kill. Chisholm knew this would happen; he bragged in 2007 that he was willing to let your loved ones die to see these policies advanced. Such is the price of progress. Chisholm has blood on his hands 3/

Chisholm wasn't the only warning sign. Waukesha Police Chief Daniel Thompson helped organize a Black Lives Matter march where his officers kneeled with protestors last year. It happened one month before Brooks nearly killed a woman, then got out on $500 bail 4/

But Chisholm is important because he also shows how Democrats *and* Republicans have worked together to make communities less safe. The GOP wants to run from this and blame Democrats because that's what they do, but they pushed the same policies recently 5/

Chisholm, a Democrat, and Brett Tolman, a Republican prosecutor, recently signed a petition asking Biden to end the federal death penalty. So, a Soros prosecutor and a Koch prosecutor agree on that and more 6/

Tolman was instrumental in creating the First Step Act, which largely originated from the Texas Public Policy Foundation's (Trump's America First Policy Institute is TPPF 2.0) soft-on-crime initiatives. The FSA opened the door to GOP bail reform 7/

Ron Johnson is now complaining about criminal justice reform getting people killed but he hasn't said a word about the First Step Act. He actually voted against a provision that would have tracked any additional crimes by inmates released under the FSA 8/ senate.gov/legislative/LI…

So, the GOP took Democrat style jailbreak policies and made them less transparent, to own the libs, of course. And the First Step Act matters now because the proposed Second Step Act would have introduced Democrat-tier bail reform policies under the guise of MAGA populism 9/

Ja'Ron Smith, a former Trump advisor now at the America First Policy Institute, said: “More incarceration doesn’t lead to safer communities.”

Would Waukesha have been safer if Brooks remained incarcerated? How many people would have been spared by locking away Brooks? 10/

Apart from the questions of Brooks' racial-political views and the uniparty making Americans less safe for both ideological and cynical reasons, the question that is truly important now is prosecutorial malpractice. John Chisholm's policies got people killed. He has to pay 11/

I don't care if a particular prosecutor or "law enforcement official" is favored by Republicans or Democrats, Soros or Koch. If your policies get people killed, you should go to jail for a long time. Simple. Let's make it happen. 12/

The idea that this is an exclusively George Soros liberal Democrat problem is a lie. Here is R Street, a conservative think tank, pushing bail reform just one month before the Waukesha killings. Not just pushing but dismissing arguments against bail reform as "myths" 13/

Adding here that while the establishment GOP is lame and fake, the soft on crime stuff was actually mainstreamed into the GOP by Trump, who is now considering Tim Scott for a 2024 running mate. Tim Scott is pro-everything that is the problem 14/ politico.com/news/2021/11/2…