Rand Paul And Conservatism's Shifting View Of Race-Repression

"Rand Paul Slams Ferguson Police,
Calls For Demilitarization"
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2014/08/15/rand-paul-slams-ferguson-reaction-calls-to-demilitarize-police/

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This time it's different — the conservative response to Ferguson. "In explaining Senator Rand Paul’s response to Ferguson — and the growing skepticism of tough-on-crime policies among leading Republican politicians today — commentators often cite the libertarian attitudes of younger voters and the GOP’s desperate need to change its image among African Americans and Latinos. But reaching out to these constituencies by shifting GOP policies on crime would be impossible if it produced the kind of furious backlash among conservative activists that Republican politicians have endured for trying to change their party’s policies on immigration. Why can Paul get away with it? Because of...the decline of crime." Peter Beinart in The Atlantic