“Is that what we want to live in, where you just occupy every city because of so-called crime? That is how dictators come to power. It’s how authoritarians come to power on the backs of that, of safety and security,” Kinzinger said on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kinzinger also said Trump is trying to “look tough” with his crime crackdown. He shared Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3781980\/jb-pritzker-trump-do-not-come-chicago-national-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JB Pritzker<\/a>‘s (D-IL) sentiment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3781980\/jb-pritzker-trump-do-not-come-chicago-national-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">keeping Trump out of the state<\/a>, saying he’s “not invited.”<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger shared his comparison of Trump’s crime cleanup to the novel <em>1984 <\/em>on X on Monday, adding more comparisons to modern-day North Korea and Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plans-to-ditch-biden-already-in-talks-before-debate-after-chuck-schumer-organizes-backup-betrayal-report\/\" title=\"Plans to Ditch Biden Already in Talks Before Debate After Chuck Schumer Organizes Backup Betrayal: Report\">question isn&rsquo<\/a>;t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.<\/p>\n<p>— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1960117321944752156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3782361\/brandon-johnson-dodges-question-more-police-chicago-safer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CHICAGO MAYOR REPEATEDLY DODGES QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER MORE POLICE WOULD MAKE CITY SAFER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3781294\/donald-trump-want-to-be-appreciated-national-guard-crime-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he “really” wants to be “appreciated”<\/a> for his National Guard deployment. He also called Chicago “a killing field right now,” saying this is not being acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>The president is also looking to clean up crime in Baltimore, Maryland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3780115\/trump-wes-moore-baltimore-crime-national-guard-bridge-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatening to pull funding<\/a> to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/2941033\/six-questions-francis-scott-key-bridge-answered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> rebuild<\/a> the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinzinger: Trump’s crime crackdown echoes authoritarian rule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2479122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP24236081767801.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[61228,62034,3634],"class_list":["post-2479121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-crime-crackdown","tag-dictators-2","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP24236081767801.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479125,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479121\/revisions\/2479125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}