tell ya what; I bet I can help you to answer your own question. if a president not named trump . . . say, some guy named obama, was proposing prison reform because it’s unfair to minorities and costs too much, what would you be doing right now.
see?
I think the change, and I have been on FR since 2008, is that people can look at the policies and not so much knee-jerk responses. There are still too many of those and I, like many others, simply agree to disagree.