Whitehead chair, and is the director of the future of the Middle-Class Initiative. I’m honoured to be joined today by Richard Reeves, who is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution where he holds the John C. I’m your host, Sean Speer, editor-at-large at The Hub. A transcript of the episode is available below. You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on Acast, Amazon, Apple, Google, Spotify, or YouTube. They discuss his thought-provoking new book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to Do About It. He is also the director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative. The House GOP’s “Commitment to America” offered some vague and dishonest platitudes, but voters expecting Republicans to actually address crime rates through meaningful governing solutions are going to be disappointed.This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Richard Reeves, who is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution where he holds the John C. Republicans want to highlight crime without proposing real solutions. Mandela Barnes, who is Black - and it becomes painfully obvious that race is playing a key role in the GOP’s strategy.ħ. Take one look at the kind of ads Republicans have aired in Wisconsin's U.S. The role of race in this strategy is hardly subtle. I’ll give you a hint: It’s not the Democratic Party.Ħ. Only one major political party in recent years has raised the prospect of defunding law enforcement while opposing increased federal funding to local police departments. The GOP has a credibility problem on the issue. And the GOP simply has no intention of doing that.ĥ. If Republicans were serious about crime, they’d have to get serious about guns. Capitol and Donald Trump’s alleged felonies. Many of the Republicans trying to leverage crime as a campaign issue are the same Republicans who appear wholly indifferent to serious crimes such as the Jan. The GOP seems awfully selective about its crime-related interests. The findings were broadly consistent with other rankings of states (and counties) by violent crime. Among the 10 states with the highest per capita homicide rates - Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee - most were in the South and relatively rural. Republican-led cities weren’t any safer than Democratic-led cities. Eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates have been reliably red states for the past two decades. As Dana Milbank explained in his latest column:Įarlier this year, the centrist Democratic group Third Way crunched the 2020 homicide figures and found that per capita homicide rates were on average 40 percent higher in states won by Trump than by Joe Biden. Republicans may need to take a long look in the mirror. The latest data from the FBI actually showed a decline in violent crime, and while there are legitimate concerns about the figures being incomplete, there are other recent reports pointing in similar directions.Ģ. The evidence of soaring crime rates is dubious. Let’s keep some factual details in mind:ġ. It’d be even better if it were fair and accurate, but it’s not. NBC News reported last week that Republicans “have unleashed a barrage of negative ads in the final weeks of the midterms that hammer Democrats on crime.”,' If this sounds at all familiar, you’ve either seen the avalanche of ads, or you’ve seen some of the recent coverage. Republicans have called Democrats too tolerant of crime after social-justice protests in 2020 swept through the country over policing abuses, and they have criticized some Democrats’ support of measures such as eliminating cash bail. Republicans in competitive House and Senate districts are hitting Democrats with a barrage of ads focused on voters’ increased fears about the surge in violent crime in recent years, with the issue playing a central role in many tight races. But as The Wall Street Journal reported this week, Republicans have instead settled on a message focused on crime. Headed into the 2022 cycle, the original plan appeared to be scare the living daylights out of swing voters by talking about critical race theory, immigrants, transgender athletes, or transgender athletes who are also immigrants talking about critical race theory.
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