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Udi Ofer

Deputy National Political Director, @ACLU, and Director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice. Goal? End mass incarceration.

Changing the Politics of Mass Incarceration

It’s been almost 50 years since President Richard Nixon played the law-and-order card to help him win the presidency. Decades later Donald Trump has adopted the same playbook, telling his own version of the forgotten American who is at the mercy of a crime wave. It didn’t matter that facts didn’t support candidate Trump’s arguments. […]