Democrats, You Don’t Actually Have To Be Insane On Crime
The article contrasts the responses of two Democratic mayors to violent crimes in their cities. In Charlotte, North Carolina, after a man brutally attacked a woman, the mayor issued a statement expressing sympathy for the perpetrator-a homeless individual struggling with mental health and inadequate government support-without condemning the act harshly. Conversely, in San Jose, California, after a violent robbery targeting an elderly jewelry store owner, Mayor Matt Mahan responded with strong condemnation, emphasizing the need for the perpetrators to face the harshest consequences. The article highlights Mahan as a more conventional and straightforward Democrat who acknowledges the importance of law and order, criticizing California’s Democratic leadership for losing focus on crime and public safety. It suggests that Mahan’s approach might signal a shift or an exception within the party’s stance on crime.
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A man slashed a woman’s throat in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Democratic mayor released a statement expressing elaborate ritual sympathy for the poor, unhoused gentleman who was driven to this desperate act by the inadequacy of the government services that were available to him. Woman brutally murdered / “I want to be clear that I am not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused.” She said she didn’t fully understand the event yet because she hadn’t assessed the medical records of the poor man who stood up on a train and started carving up a stranger with a knife. See, if you really think about it, the dude with the knife was the true victim.
Now, look west. On Sept. 5, in San Jose, California, a violent robbery caused devastating harm to the elderly owner of a jewelry store. The Democratic mayor of San Jose responded like this:
This is appalling, it makes my blood boil, and we’re going to make arrests. “These people need to face the harshest possible consequences for their actions.”
That’s a sort of basic human response, isn’t it? They brutalized an elderly man to get some money, that’s disgusting, and I promise they’ll pay a price for that behavior. Zero ritual performance about those poor suffering souls who were driven to crime by society’s cruelty and the inadequacy of government services.
In many ways, Matt Mahan is an extremely conventional progressive politician, with a background that’s so typical you could invent it as parody. He met his wife at Harvard, and then he built a Facebook app called Causes and a voter network to save “our democracy,” while his wife worked as an associate at Skadden Arps and “produced social impact films.” Uh-huh. There’s an army of social justice entrepreneurs waiting to be the Democratic mayor of someplace, arm-in-arm with the spouse they met at [insert Ivy here].
But Mahan is also shrewd enough to sense the direction of the wind:
In an attack on the sociopathic governor of California, Mahan sounded a bunch of themes that California Democrats just… don’t. Stop being hostile to business, work on crime and disorder, lock up repeat offenders, and make cities cleaner and safer.
Matt Mahan sees that his party has lost the plot, and he’s a Democrat elected official who actually manages to sound like a human being. Is he a one-off, or a harbinger?
This article was originally published on the author’s Substack, “Tell Me How This Ends.”
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