The unhinged hostility to Donald Trump’s successful crime crackdown in Washington, DC, puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking?
Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is a “major problem,” according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week.
The other 19% must be either criminals or blue city politicians — or both.
Setting a ‘trap’
During a three-hour Cabinet meeting last week, the president trolled his political opponents about the “trap” they’ve landed themselves in when it comes to public safety.
“I think it’s going to be a big, big subject for the midterms, and I think the Republicans are going to do really well,” he said. “This Democrat consultant said, ‘He’s put them in a trap again,’ because these are all traps, you know, 80:20 [issues]. They’re almost a hundred to nothing.”
When asked by a reporter if he would consider sending the National Guard into red cities that are “also seeing high crime,” Trump replied: “Sure, but there aren’t that many of them.
If you look at the top 25 cities for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.”
Cue apoplexy from MSNBC, but he’s spot on.