I think that MIR is the outlier here, not Sys and 7. It’s shitty messaging.
I'm not an outlier, you aren't reading correctly. I've never once said the messaging was good, bad, or indifferent. My opinion is that the messaging doesn't matter. If the advocates said "reallocate police funding" or "demilitarizev the police" the republicans would weaponize it. A slogan isn't the reason why dems lost house seats nor should it stop legislators from doing their jobs and addressing the issue.
None of that up there is particularly controversial or groundbreaking. The talk of "defund the police" by anyone who matters is a smoke screen. The republicans also literally branded every single dem house and senate candidate with the green new deal, why isn't any of them whining about that? None of them are crying about being branded as "radical socialist liberals."
Moderate liberals know that police reform, no matter how it's dressed up, is seen as a political hot potato, so they're unnecessarily scared of it. Dems more worried about how their white think of them instead of fixing our country, par for the course.