Defund the Police never meant take funding away to "elite leftists" in the cities but rather it meant reallocate the existing money into more social services. Only the most radical BLM elements ever advocated abolishing police depts. The "elite leftists, to me the wealthy bleeding heary liberals, simply wanted to change how we police to combat the perceived racism and inequalities. Look no further than Seattle that took $100M away from Police which was achieved in part through reorganizing Social Workers embedded within the SPD into other parts of the city org. If you look at total funding of social services and SPD, funding actually increased significantly.
Union leadership is still staunchly D thus they continue to get the lions share of the lobbying money for now. The rank and file has been lost to the Trump party though. Not sure the D's can regain their support for decades. Of course, their numbers are diminishing greatly as we've been shifting to a knowledge workers economy for a while. The D's loss has also been offset a bit by wealthy liberal elites coming from the tech companies in both numbers and lobbying power. The R's have lost them for the intermediate future also with the rise of Trump. Trump has had a huge impact on the political scene that will be felt for decades. The Ds likely came out the winner in that exchange but time will tell. Still looking for a party that cares about fiscal responsibility.
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