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    Crime, Democrats and the Next Election - Bernie Goldberg

    Whatever anyone thinks about Republicans or conservatives or anybody who ever said a kind word about Donald Trump, none of them is responsible for the chaos that has erupted in America's biggest cities – no matter how hard Democrats try to convince the public that it's all the GOP's fault.

    The surge in crime we've been witnessing in New York (murders up 14 percent over last year during the first three months of 2021) and Chicago (homicides up 33 percent) and Los Angeles (homicides up nearly 36 percent) is evidence that while progressives may know how to get elected they don't have a clue as to how to govern.

    "Once in office, progressives don't seem to know how to run anything more serious than a street protest," is how an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal put it.

    There are basic rules of civilized societies and one of them is that you should rightly be concerned that if you commit a serious crime you'll wind up behind bars. But that's not how it works anymore in a lot of places.

    If it isn't progressive mayors supporting "defund the police" movements, it's progressive prosecutors who don't really like prosecuting criminals. In Los Angeles, the new district attorney, George Gascon, is reviewing nearly 20,000 old prison sentences for violent crimes like murder. Why? Because he's considering letting those convicted criminals out early, a way he figures to reduce overcrowding in prisons. Voters have noticed – and have launched a recall movement to get him out of office.

    And if you get arrested for breaking the law, more than a few liberal city officials are against cash bail requirements, because, they say, that's discrimination against poor people. So the guy who just got arrested can be back on the street committing more crimes even before the paperwork is completed. Voters notice that, too.

    In fact, according to a YouGov/The Economist poll, the share of Americans who say crime is the most important issue facing America has increased since Joe Biden became president, which may explain why he finally got around to noticing that there's a crime problem in urban America. He recently gave a speech, which was largely about guns. But while calling for a ban on so-called assault weapons may please the anti-gun left wing in his party it won't put a dent in urban crime, where the weapon of choice is a handgun.

    Still, as syndicated conservative columnist Rich Lowry points out, "It's a good thing the president has noticed that homicides increased 30 percent last year, a historic jump that shows no signs of abating. But he leads a national party that is largely incapable of seriously grappling with a problem that requires resisting the years-long intellectual and political campaign to delegitimize law enforcement and the criminal justice system."

    It's a lot easier for Biden to blame an inanimate object like a gun than to blame criminals in big cities who are consciously choosing to commit acts of violence. You know why? Because blaming criminals might actually offend those progressives in his party, and that's not something the president is anxious to do.

    I've had the impression for a while now that Joe Biden, who ran as a centrist Democrat, isn't actually calling the shots. It's the left wing of his party that's driving the car and Biden is just sitting in the back seat going along for the ride.

    And that's why there's something you don't hear from Biden or his fellow Democrats, who are always looking for what they describe as "root causes" — that fatherlessness is a very important root cause of a lot of the mayhem we're witnessing in urban America.

    The absence of responsible fathers in the lives of young boys in places like Chicago -- where over Father's Day weekend, 65 people were shot and 10 killed – is causing more problems than old-fashioned racism. Yet Chicago's progressive mayor, Lori Lightfoot, tells us that, "racism is a public-health crisis," which continues "to rob residents of the opportunity to live and lead full, healthy and happy lives."

    And when I brought up fatherlessness with a former colleague, a progressive journalist of color, he angrily told me I was dealing in, "tired, conservative tropes." Conservatives talk about the problems caused by fatherlessness, I told him, because liberals won't.

    But Democrats may want to start talking about the things that make them uncomfortable – if for no other reason than the midterm elections are just over the horizon.

    Rising crime has become a major political issue in America – an issue that could cause Democrats a lot of harm. People care about their safety. They care about it a lot. Voters aren't likely to blame Republicans for the lawlessness they're watching just about every day on the news. But they just might blame Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

    That's why President Biden took time away from his push to pass multi-trillion dollar spending bills to unveil his crime agenda. Surely he knows that a recent Fox News poll found that 73 percent of registered voters think that there's more crime nationwide now than there was a year earlier.

    And nothing focuses the attention of a politician more than the prospect of losing the next election.

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    is evidence that while progressives may know how to get elected they don't have a clue as to how to govern.


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