Biden Commutes Nearly 2,500 More Sentences in Final Days of His Presidency

I have little idea whether this is good or bad.

Of course, generally disagreeing with Biden and the contemporary Dems, it's easy to see this as:

(a) More Dem soft-on-crime lunacy.

(b) A post hoc attempt at damage control re: the Hunter pardon, by making it look like part of a principled "decarceral" orientation.

But, for all I know, many/most/all these people deserve clemency.

I do doubt it, however.

Here's a pretty safe prediction: this will cause a bump in crime.

Some people will die because of it.

Many of these people will re-offend.

Apparently there just aren't all that many people in prison for nonviolent drug offences--or so I've read. People who are nominally in for such offenses have generally accepted plea deals to avoid more serious charges.

The bottom line is that progressives/liberals/Democrats really do tend to be soft on crime. This is part of their bizarre selective empathy, their blindness to the plight of ordinary people. Their bleeding hearts bleed for the poor criminal wasting away behind bars...but not for the innocent victim. Waves of illegal aliens surging across the border, causing chaos? Oh, the poor dears! The ordinary Americans along the border whose lives are thrown into chaos, whose towns are flooded, whose jobs are taken? Why, fuck 'em. Now, send those illegals to Froofybunkport, MA, and suddenly it's an outrage! Suddenly the plight to which the blues were blind becomes obvious and intolerable. It's a bizarre kind of selfishness on the left. Virtue-signaling is more important than the plight of their countrymen...but not more important than their own comfort.

Or something like that.

This is the kind of thing that--somewhat independent of the left's adoption of Woketarian madness--has made me move toward the center-right. This sort of bleeding-heart nonsense...sometimes it's right...but generally it's stupid. Not just wrong. Stupid. It's dopey and weepy and childish. There should be a heavy burden of proof on it. If it sounds like bleeding-heart bullshit, it probably is. Go ahead and check it--make sure it isn't an exception. Sometimes it will be. But generally not.

This hunch can be checked in this case:

(i) Go through and see how many of these "nonviolent" drug offenders really are nonviolent.

(ii) Check in 5, 10, 15 years to see how many have reoffended.