All that said, the essay does usefully challenge a number of left-of-center shibboleths. It offers a more accurate history of the political rise of mass incarceration (i.e., that it was driven by liberal Republicans and centrist Democrats) and it intriguingly embraces the notion of a “well-armed citizenry” as a concession to what it contends is the brute fact that its abolitionist agenda would lead to a palpable increase in urban violence.
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