(this will be messy and incoherent, apologies now)
In the year 1994, we elected the Southern conservative Democrat Bill Clinton. He is remembered for being the first Democrat that we had in decades, and is seen as an icon in liberal circles.
Look at this graph:
We see that mass incarceration started under the conservatives, but it then continued up until …
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