By Christopher Bedford
Something strange is afoot in the party of Jefferson. With the Democrats still spinning after the collapse of their election bill — and progressives furious with the White House’s seeming lack of commitment to that effort — the president has already pivoted, announcing a plan to tackle the violent crime wave besetting American cities.
And the vice president? She’s on her way to the border, 91 days, two countries, and countless laughs after it was first assigned by the boss.
Some might notice that cracking down on rampant crime and tackling a crisis at the border were not topics of discussion when now-President Joe Biden and now-Vice President Kamala (briefly) shared a debate stage two years ago. In fact, it was quite the opposite, littered with jabs and brags about who was more anti-cop or more open-border. So what gives?
If you get your news from Democrats or their palace guards in corporate media, you might think the White House was forced into this by wicked Republicans and dastardly conservative media.
“Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, are… attempting to pin the rash of violence on the White House, even though increases in gun violence happened during the previous administration,” Politico claimed, as if their readers can’t remember a full year of Democratic defund-the-police schemes.
“Conservative media outlets are carrying a steady stream of foreboding headlines highlighting the rise of year-over-year shootings and homicides,” they added, for good measure.
“Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border this week,” Politico opened another article, “amid an unrelenting chorus of criticism from Republicans over her failure to visit there.”
“Some might say that the other party was for defunding the police,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki even said during Wednesday’s press conference, citing the GOP’s pushback on a Democratic social-workers bill.
Of course, none of the above scribes actually think Republican Party pressure is the reason for this about-face, and even Psaki is smart enough to look embarrassed to try the talking point, nearly walking it back right away.
They all know that the only real reason a political party shifts focus so dramatically from its goals to issues it wishes it could avoid is terrible internal polling: numbers coming back predicting election disasters, battleground states looking dicey, voters across the country responding negatively.
People don’t admit it when this is the reason (unless they’re Don Lemon, who leaked CNN’s internal polling and is a special person), but it’s the same thing we saw when Democrats reversed course on last summer’s deadly riots and the ongoing lockdowns.
And we saw it in real time in New York City, the liberal capital of the East, when on Tuesday a former New York Police Department captain who promised to tackle crime and put more cops on the streets came in first place in the mayoral election and is likely on the path to victory.
How’d he pull it off? “His message,” the Intelligencer reports, “almost singularly emphasized fighting crime (the top issue among all Democratic voters)… He campaigned on increasing the NYPD’s budget and presence on the streets after many candidates initially embraced ‘defund the police’ rhetoric following citywide protests against the police last summer.”
Primary elections are about as trustworthy a poll as you can get, and Democrats are finally listening. But here’s their quagmire: They don’t have a single solution. Both the crisis at the border and the crisis in the cities are the direct results of their policies of dropping enforcement of crime in both places, and what do Biden and Harris want to do in response? Crack down on gun-store owners and fix the economies of Central America.
“With the Democrats still spinning after the collapse of their election bill — and progressives furious with the White House’s seeming lack of commitment to that effort” The “good thing he ain’t a Supreme Court Justice” AG Garland is going to sue Georgia for blocking making election fraud the law of the land in Georgia. Though no one can say exactly how, he claims it prevents blacks from voting.
It’s true; the explosion in violent crime was Trump’s fault. He purposely campaigned for the Presidency and legitimately won (the last time, so far, THAT has happened). This incited whiny, crybaby sore losers to viscerally and violently react to not employing enough fraud and propaganda to put a criminal in office (an error they were soon to correct) and Democrat leaders in Democrat cities reined law enforcement in to allow unfettered political violence to spread. I’m sure it’s just an unfortunate (for those killed) coincidence that exponential rises in all categories of crimes coincides with police being vilified, harassed, defunded and taken off the streets.
This is like the organizers of a NYC “gay pride” parade refusing to allow gay NYC cops to march in their parade. Why? Because the police marching would possibly draw a violent response. Well, doesn’t a parade of gays do the same thing? Isn’t what what all the attention is all about, to generate awareness and acceptance of the gay lifestyle so they won’t be routinely beaten and killed? In not, what is the unusually large NYCPD presence lining the parade route there for? Perhaps the gay parades should be cancelled… they might draw a violent response. Blame the target, not the perps.
Likewise, it is merely another coincidence (lots of those lately, huh?) that simultaneous with the fraudulent “win” of the candidates that promised to open the border, hand out free health care, asylum for any and all, amnesty and free citizenship and 700% increase in illegal border invasions occurred.
This is the administration that cannot see the forest for all the things they have intentionally f**ked up.