> Democrats had no qualms voting for the Crime Bill back in the 90s, and were willing to turn around and get aggressive about the border to win an election.

this seems awfully coy. Why not just say who cheerled the bill and who went on the TV circuit to explain how great it was because of "super predators" - nice euphemism.

[*] https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/biden-on-the-1994-crime-bi...

[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlGM4TClIjA (Hillary apologizes for 1994 crime bill)

"Democrats" isn't some amorphous thing we can't tag to individual people. The last president of the USA and his sponsor (Bill Clinton) were adamant to get that bill passed. Biden spearheaded the legislation. This isn't just some "he voted yea on it!" sort of thing.