The newly sworn-in Manhattan district attorney has just made the largest in-kind contribution to the GOP in modern history in the form of the already-notorious memo he sent to his underlings announcing how his office would handle its caseload.

Simply put, Bragg’s approach is to pretend crime isn’t crime, that criminals aren’t criminals and that punishing people for breaking the law is bad.

Basically, unless someone murders someone else, Bragg is going to try to keep convicted criminals out of jail.

Perhaps I should go into the details of this document or offer some earnest arguments against Bragg’s policy decision to downgrade felonies like armed robbery into misdemeanors — acts his office will then refuse to ask a judge to punish with “carceral” action.