Trump Is Leaning in on Crime. Dems Need a Better Response

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... The president in recent days is leaning even further into using the National Guard as a glorified police force, visiting the troops and allowing them to be armed. He's suggested he's eyeing Chicago and New York next for their next deployment. On Sunday, he needled Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for Baltimore's notorious crime statistics, hinting he could send troops there as well.

It's a sign that despite polling showing how unpopular Trump's moves are in Washington, the president is playing to a national audience -- and betting this is a battle he and the GOP can win. If his recent escalation was an attempt to goad Democrats into declaring that crime isn't a problem, repelling swing voters in the process, top Democrats did not disappoint him. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 02:32 PM | Reply

... President Donald Trump said that his federal crime crackdown will sully the records of contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, drawing an explicit link between his deployment of National Guard troops and boosting the Republican Party's political prospects.

Trump and Vice President JD Vance lambasted California's Gavin Newsom, Illinois' JB Pritzker and Maryland's Wes Moore on Monday as governors who are weak on crime, defending plans to possibly expand the Guard's presence from Washington, DC to cities and states run by Democrats nationwide.

"All of their potential candidates are doing a bad job," Trump told reporters on Monday.

Moore "doesn't have what it takes," Trump said, adding that he "can't imagine Pritzker even being a candidate" because "he's not temperamentally suited" and is a "slob." Newsom, the president continued, is a "disaster."

The Oval Office appearance, during which Trump signed executive orders targeting cashless bail and flag burning, offered Vance a chance to burnish his credentials as the president's successor-in-waiting by hammering home his law-and-order message. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-26 02:33 PM | Reply

America is too Stupid to Survive.

Sigh.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-26 03:21 PM | Reply

Why would crime favor Republicans?

It's just silly us liberals are giving up, with cashless bail, letting out prisoners. Don't those that propose this see criminals are an oppressive force?

Criminals create poverty, no one invests where there is crime.

Democrats need to come out strong on crime, and figure out a way to rehabilitate criminals into upstanding citizens. This is the way...

The idea of letting them run unchecked through the cities is terrible for the poor that live there.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-26 03:40 PM | Reply

us liberals

You're a lying sack of crap.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-26 03:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"us liberals"

Nobody believes that. Not even you.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-26 04:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

First, let's round up all the fake chinks

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-26 04:55 PM | Reply