“Defund the police” refers to the reallocation or redirection of government funding from police departments to social services for minority communities.

But . . . what people hear in the words Defund the Police, what registers in the voters' minds is Eliminate the Police. That's not a winning message anywhere.

Bottom line? It's lousy, sloppy messaging. Doesn't matter what the originators' intended, the Defund the Police has been exploited by the Republicans in their own messaging wars and have used those three words as an effective club against Democratic candidates.

Guaranteed this will be used in the Georgia run-offs.

We can argue and bark back and forth on the validity of the message until the cows come home. The only thing that matters in an election is the number of votes racked up. Because without winning we get to change zip, zero, nada.