Joe Biden should really stop bragging about the Violence Against Women Act https://bit.ly/3oFYlQD ">https://bit.ly/3oFYlQD&q...

The weirdest part about Biden & Dems’ narrative on the Violence Against Women Act is the idea that until 1994, everyone thought wife beating was totally OK and only Biden had the integrity to challenge that https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Gesicht mit rollenden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit rollenden Augen"> https://reason.com/2020/10/29/joe-biden-should-stop-bragging-about-the-violence-against-women-act/">https://reason.com/2020/10/2...

Biden was actually quite late to the domestic violence issue — others in Congress (including Republicans) & federal gov were talking about it A LOT as early as the late 70s & early 80s. Biden only embraced it in 90s after he’d exhausted drug war & other crime panic possibilities

It was personal for Biden, though. He lost his first case bc a domestic violence victim wouldn’t testify against her partner.

Biden had a long “tussle” w/her but couldn’t bend her to his will. So he changed federal law to save other prosecutors that pain https://reason.com/2020/10/29/joe-biden-should-stop-bragging-about-the-violence-against-women-act/">https://reason.com/2020/10/2...

Since his & #39;90s crime warrior days, Biden has moved on to more modern moral panics—going all-in on whatever centrist ideas have captured the Dem zeitgeist & giving a folksy, do-gooder veneer to all sorts of ultimately ugly policies https://reason.com/2020/10/29/joe-biden-should-stop-bragging-about-the-violence-against-women-act/">https://reason.com/2020/10/2...

If we want to really help victims of domestic violence (and not just help the state look like they& #39;re helping), we need to focus funding on shelters, emergency aid, & direct services — not courts, prosecutors, & cops https://reason.com/2020/10/29/joe-biden-should-stop-bragging-about-the-violence-against-women-act/">https://reason.com/2020/10/2...