everyone knows very well that Trump is right re: DC. Everyone. Even MSNBC.
“This may sound controversial,” Scarborough read, “but I’m not totally opposed to Trump’s National Guard move in D.C. I know he’s doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant. I’ve had too many friends carjacked, shot at. None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8:00 p.m. Thirteen-year-olds are committing many of these crimes, quite a change from a decade ago when things were much calmer.”
… He wasn’t the only one, either. Chris Matthews, who could never be described as a Trump cheerleader, dismantled one of the Democrats’ favorite talking points about crime. “And the murder rate,” he said, “you can’t keep saying violent crime is down, but the murder rate’s up.”
It’s just nutty. Are Democrats really going to defend this?It seems like a real loser of an issue for them!
Jennings seized on the interruption to make his point clear. “Exactly right. Louisville is a violent place. We had a kid shot at a bus stop. We have an epidemic of violence in Louisville, and it has been under Democratic control for decades, and my state’s been under a Democratic governor for the last two—”
Democrats, how is this a hill to die on?