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Liberal Californians Have Reached Their Breaking Point on Crime
Voters are likely to approve a ballot measure calling for stricter sentencing guidelines.
Fed up.
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For as long as Donald Trump has been in politics, he has bashed California as a “radical hellscape” of crime, homelessness and drugs that only a conservative “law and order” approach could fix. So, it should be deeply troubling to Democrats that in this pivotal election year, the party’s messaging is so off that a solid majority of voters in the most liberal state in the US apparently agree with the former president.
Indeed, after more than a decade of serving as a national model for criminal justice reform, Californians seem to have reached a breaking point.