Trump Cleaning Up DC Proves Dems Destroy Cities By Choice
The article discusses how President Donald Trump took decisive action to address crime in Washington, D.C., which had long been considered inevitable by its local leaders. By deploying the National Guard to restore order, the city experienced a meaningful drop in violent crime, including seven consecutive days without a homicide, an 83% decrease in carjackings, a 46% drop in robberies, and an overall 22% reduction in violent crime. Despite this success, critics from the left, including the Centre for American Progress and D.C.’s Attorney General,condemned the deployment,claiming it undermines public safety and fails to address real priorities. The article argues that their opposition is less about the results and more about acknowledging that strong leadership and increased police presence can indeed reduce crime, challenging the narrative that crime is inevitable or that defunding the police is effective.The piece concludes that the success in D.C. under Trump’s intervention reveals that safe, orderly cities are achievable with the right leadership, something the left’s approach has failed to deliver.
For years, Washington, D.C.’s so-called leaders resigned themselves to the idea that crime was inevitable. Then came President Donald Trump, who saw a problem and took the novel approach of actually doing something about it — sending in the National Guard to restore order in the capital.
The result? For the first time in ages, D.C. has gone seven straight days without a single homicide.
According to Fox45, the capital has also seen carjackings decrease by 83%, “robberies by 46%, car thefts by 21%, and overall violent crime is down 22%.”
Sgt. Betsy Smith of the National Police Association said Washington, D.C.’s police department is suffering critical staffing shortages, which is an issue since “More police generally equals less crime.”
Of course that simple truth runs counter to everything the left has preached for years. They’ve championed defunding the police, smeared law enforcement as systemically racist, and sneered at Trump’s efforts to make Washington not just safe, but livable again. In fact, they’ve told us for days now that Trump’s efforts actually make D.C. unsafe.
The Center for American Progress (CAP) wrote that “these deployments … fail to address the district’s real public safety priorities.” CAP argued that the deployment of the National Guard “will threaten public safety in the nation’s capital.”
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said the deployment “undermines public safety” while one D.C. resident, Mara Lasko, told CNN that she doesn’t think the National Guard makes people feel safer.
“I don’t think they’re actually doing anything productive to make our city a safer place,” Lasko said.
Of course the data disproves their opinions.
But their outrage was never really about the National Guard — or police in general — making the streets safer. Nobody actually opposes less homicides, less carjackings, or safer neighborhoods. What they oppose is what those results prove.
If a full week without a single homicide is possible — if violent crime can really decrease when leadership takes action — then the left’s entire excuse-making machine collapses. Crime is not inevitable. It’s not “just the way things are.” It’s a product of weak, spineless leadership that would rather watch constituents suffer than admit strong action works.
That’s why the left is furious about the National Guard in Washington. Not because it failed — but because it works. It showed the country that with real leadership, you can stop violence, you can have order, and you can have nice things — but you won’t get those nice things with a Democrat in power.
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