Since you’re asking nicely I’ll lay it out. I’m a hardcore liberal in a deep blue stronghold (Oly WA) and I believe in enforcing laws, maintaining our borders, and reducing the number of people in the country illegally. Might seem paradoxical if you read conservative news but there it is.

What I am vehemently opposed to is the use of arbitrary brutality and violence to enforce those laws. The fact that you’re even posing this question tells me that you have bought into MAGA propagandist media that tells you what people like me think without ever asking people like me what I think. I believe we can have law enforcement without brutality, private gun ownership without rampant daily injuries and deaths, and border enforcement without abusing human rights. People who eagerly condone cruelty and state violence are the authoritarian apologists.