Crime Crackdown Devastates Democrats
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There is a political game afoot that I’m not sure I’ve ever witnessed before. You might call it the art of making the opposition support something they shouldn’t. Nobody plays this game better than President Donald Trump. Right now, with his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., he’s got Democrats appearing to support crime.
How’d he do that?
It relates to Trump Derangement Syndrome – the left-wing malady that causes the Left to be for anything Donald Trump is against – and vice versa. I can just imagine Trump, chin on hand, in the Oval Office, thinking: how can I drive Democrats up the wall today? What better issue than the high crime rate in Washington, D.C. and Chicago? He brings in the Guard and cleans it up, daring the Democrats to come out in favor of crime.
And that’s exactly what they seem to do. They know they shouldn’t but they just can’t help themselves.
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The crime issue is a huge losing issue for Democrats.
The Democratic Party has always been soft on crime. Well, there was a time when Joe Biden was a sponsor of a Crime Bill that sent a lot of criminals to prison. But in today’s world, the race of the criminal matters more than the crime. Prisons, to Democrats, became racist, and so they changed from “tough on crime” to “criminals are the real victims.”
Video: CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports on Trump’s crime crackdown.
That’s great, until someone gets mugged or has a family member murdered by the gangs or becomes afraid to take a walk after sundown. That’s the way it in in many parts of our major urban areas. A person may be politically liberal, but still, he or she is touched by crime. I suspect that millions of left-leaning voters have to think twice before voting for a politically correct leftist who coddles criminals, or a right winger who doesn’t.
It gets worse. In comes no cash bail, a left-wing idea that puts criminals right back on the streets, and the advent of “George Soros District Attorneys” who coddle criminals because of social justice. These two phenomena have become familiar in our big cities, and our big cities have become crime-ridden. A Southside Chicago single mother may vote for Democrats, but she might not if a drive-by shooting kills her child.
President Trump saw the crime issue as a way to fix crime and make Democrats seems foolish in one fell swoop.
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Trump’s plan was flawless.
He could have advocated for more police. Remember, Democrats worked to defund the police. But simply advocating for more funding wasn’t what Trump has in mind. After all, if more money to fight crime was sent to liberal cities, it would have probably gone into social programs rather than enforcement.
So, Trump sent in the National Guard. Crime in D.C. went down instantly, and the number of days without a murder stretched to twelve. That wasn’t the only stretch without a murder, but it was significant because it appeared to be a cause-and-effect result. Trump’s crackdown on crime was working.
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Democrats couldn’t stand it.
Already soft on crime, big-city mayors and left-wing governors warned him not to send the Guard into their cities. Note that D.C. is a federal jurisdiction and Trump has full power to do what he did. Chicago and Baltimore are another matter because they’re in states. So why not work with the President, request that the troops come in to get the crime rate down, and put an end to the bloody weekends that take place in Chicago on a regular basis.
Video: California Gov. Gavin Newsom fighting back at Trump.
That would be logical. It would make sense. But governors like Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago virtually came out in support of criminals. Johnson went on the “Morning Joe” on MSNBC and was asked five times by Joe Scarborough if 5,000 additional police would bring the crime rate down. Johnson never gave a straight answer, but at one point, suggested that the answer to crime is affordable housing.
Video: The Mayor of Chicago cannot give a straight answer to Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.
It was the same thing when Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent troopers from the Department of Public Safety to Austin to hold down crime and curb the murder rate when Austin was short hundreds of officers. Some local officials and left-wing activists didn’t like it.
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Trump took the crime issue and made it into an art.
Democrats are at odds to begin with on this issue. Except when they briefly tried to own the crime issue, and it backfired on them, the Dems have adopted the position that the criminal is really the victim. They seem to think that crimes committed by a criminal are the result of racism, poverty, or whatever else they can think of.
Donald Trump saw this, and exploited it. In Washington, D.C., it worked pretty well. In other crime-ridden cities, governors and mayors who warn Trump to stay away are playing into his hands.
In Washington, Trump’s policies got the crime rate down. In other cities, in which the mayors told him not to come in and crack down on crime, he made them look like fools.
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley.
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