[T]he city’s political leadership—which Democrats have dominated for nearly a century—has tolerated disorder for far too long… Trump doesn’t entirely miss the mark when he lambastes generations of political indifference to so much suffering. When he deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C., crime fell.
October 20th, 2025 at 6:18PM
Sending troops to American cities is obviously political. Its Mussolini lite. As you have noted, the highest murder rates are in Republican governed states. When are troops going to those places? Never.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:32PM
Matt: Yes – the big giveaway is that they’re not going to the biggest bloodbath of all: Mississippi.
In the words of the great Tom Lehrer: To the shores of Tripoli, but not to Mississippoli.