Ah, I see where we’ve miscommunicated. Your grammar could use a little work but the structure of this sentence...
“my bad, he wasn't "proud" of it ...he just wasn't "ashamed" of it or the fact that he wrote it, like everyone else attached to it was :)”
I first read it like: “like everyone else attached to it” “wasn’t ashamed.”
Because of your initial structure, the dangling participle threw me as to whom was and wasn’t ashamed. I see now you actually meant:
“everyone else attached to it” “was ashamed of it” but he “wasn’t”
So, you’re correct. It doesn’t contradict you. My bad, as you would say.
As for where he flipped, I think you mean when. Initially, the crime bill was passed through overwhelming bipartisan effort in the Senate. 95-4, for passing the legislature in lieu of Biden’s initial draft.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00384
https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1607
And that is certainly something to be proud of but I’d say the support from it began to slip when it became apparent that despite the fact that crime and murder rates were on the decline, mass incarceration was on the rise. And with that came a rise in federal costs.
Finding it both impractical and no longer financially viable to see the still increasingly high incarcerations, especially after the 2008 recession, both sides of the political spectrum have called for prison reform. It didn’t receive much in the way of real traction on a federal level until 2017 with the First Step Act’s introduction.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/756
Which was introduced by a Republican, Dan Sullivan and passed at the end of 2018 without a single objection from Senate and House Democrats. With only a couple dozen Republicans against it.
This signal that prison reform could not only be a potential unification of the Democratic Party but of renewed bipartisan relations with the Republican Party likely is when Biden began to seriously reconsider the impact of his ‘94 Crime Bill and seized the opportunity to instead recommit his efforts to prison reform.
Whether or not he follows through on that remains to be seen.
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