It’s a given in any human endeavor that it’s much easier to pull something apart than it is to build something up. There’s a long history of right-wing critique of the left that runs along these lines. One of the most recent, and significant examples of that was the right’s reaction to defund the police.
The obvious problem with defund the police as a political movement was that while it was relatively easy to convince left-wing mayors and city councils to give it a try, the next steps were always pretty vague. The ideologues seemed to believe that fewer police would instantly create fewer problems but that experiment turned out to be a national failure. In fact, fewer police often just meant more crime. In a few extreme cases, no police resulted in complete chaos.
Rufo: If you remember the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone during the 2020 riots, the mayor of…
