There’s an important point in the latest Jill Filipovic newsletter regarding the sort of seismic shift that’s happened in how the country talks about policing.

Today, commentators on CNN are discussing what it would mean to defund the police. Politicians are having to tell the public what they’ll do to fix this problem. Democrats are being asked about cutting police funding (they nearly all say that they want to scale back bad policing, but virtually none say they want to get rid of police entirely). Still, the middle has moved so rapidly left that “reform the police” is now the conservative position.

Emphasis added.