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Dems Are Getting Mugged By Reality, Often Literally
Issues & Insights ^ | 27 Nov, 2023 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 11/27/2023 6:55:05 AM PST by MtnClimber

Some Democrats are waking up and noticing that the policies they’ve been cheerleading have produced violent crime waves, a massive migrant crisis, and genocidal antisemitism. One would hope the public at large is catching on as well.

Just over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a spate of headlines about lefty, soft-on-crime Democrats attacked on the mean streets they’ve helped create.

- A Secret Service agent opened fire on would-be car thieves who tried to break into an unmarked SUV in the ritzy Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Turns out, the agents were assigned to one of President Joe Biden’s granddaughters. As one poster on X noted: “It’s pathetic that the Naomi Biden incident was the catalyst for the MSM to finally acknowledge the severity of the D.C. crime crisis.”

- In early October, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked at gunpoint in the Navy Yard area of Capitol Hill. “I was just coming into my place,” he said. “Three guys came out of nowhere and they pointed guns at me.”

- Later that same month, Jason Williams, a George Soros-backed district attorney in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and his mother were carjacked by thieves pointing rifles at them. Williams, whose 2020 campaign benefited from $220,000 in Soros contributions had promised to “end the use of Louisiana’s stringent habitual offender laws, never transfer juveniles to adult court, and become much pickier about accepting cases for prosecution.”

- In September, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party official Shivanthi Sathanandan – who three years earlier declared “We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Say it with me.” – suffered a broken leg, lacerations, cuts, and bruises from carjackers who beat her in front of her two young children. She changed her tune after getting mugged by reality. “We need to … catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city, and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM,” she posted on X.

- Earlier this year, Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., was assaulted in the elevator of her Washington, D.C., residence by a 26-year-old man. One of Craig’s former staffers was hip-deep in the “defund” movement, at one point calling for people to “Burn. It. All. Down” in 2020 in response to police-involved deaths in New York. For the record, crime in Democratic-controlled D.C. has been skyrocketing. So far this year:

- Homicides are up 33%. - Robberies up 67%. - Motor vehicle theft has jumped 97%.

The same trends are happening around the country, as soft-on-crime leftists coddle criminals in the name of social justice. The public pays. Now, so are Democrats.

At the same time, Democratic mayors are finding their cities being mugged by the illegal immigrants that Biden and his open-border cronies have let flood into the country.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recenty announced plans to cut $4 billion from the city’s budget, including canceling the hiring of new police officers, to pay for the influx of more than 100,000 illegals in the past year.

Andre Vasquez, who heads the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, told Politico “You’re hearing sentiments that are not dissimilar from what you would hear at Trump rallies. … There are people who are saying ‘the Democratic Party isn’t doing anything for us’ and ‘look at what we’re stuck with.’”

Maybe that’s because, as one Chicago Democrat pointed out, while tens of thousands of blacks in the city are homeless, illegals are being put up in hotels....


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: crime; leftism

1 posted on 11/27/2023 6:55:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if leftist politicians see the irony while they are being mugged?


2 posted on 11/27/2023 6:55:29 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Reminds me of the old saying: a conservative is a formal liberal who got mugged.


3 posted on 11/27/2023 6:57:52 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber
One would hope the public at large is catching on as well.

In our dreams.

4 posted on 11/27/2023 6:59:00 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MtnClimber

For Liberals, ‘reality’ is an alien and terrifying concept


5 posted on 11/27/2023 7:02:30 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: MtnClimber

The fundamental principle of advertising is “Peception becomes reality”. And the left controls the machinery of perception.


6 posted on 11/27/2023 7:10:10 AM PST by bigbob
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To: MtnClimber

“Just over the past few weeks...”
This has been going on since Obama became President.
The MSM refused to report it.


7 posted on 11/27/2023 7:13:33 AM PST by Zathras
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To: SMARTY

It sure is.


8 posted on 11/27/2023 7:14:51 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

I doubt it.


9 posted on 11/27/2023 7:15:04 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: All

We, the people, have been sounding the alarm for years. Now “some” Democrats
are waking up to the consequences of public policies they’ve been cheerleading:
<><>violent crime waves,
<><>a massive migrant crisis,
<><>and virulent genocidal antisemitism.

“Compassionate” lefty “tolerance,” has boomeranged and engendered “soft-on-crime
Democrats” being attacked, maimed and murdered on the mean streets they’ve helped create.


10 posted on 11/27/2023 7:24:54 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: MtnClimber

It is going to take a lot more of these chickens coming home to roost before the Dems admit they are wrong. In the mean time, I have to admit I enjoy reading about it.


11 posted on 11/27/2023 7:25:38 AM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: All

More egregiously, Jews are forced to face previously unspoken leftist sentiments.

Oct 7th tore off a lot of leftist masks.

Anti-Semites don’t hide their grotesque attitudes now, they talk it up 24/7,
they are fearlessly quoted, and, no doubt, would be happy to tell any Jew to his face, if asked.

Jews are now forced to confront their non-Jewish comrades agreeing with them regarding
Leftist causes.......which for non-Jews clearly includes unvarnished anti-Semitism.


12 posted on 11/27/2023 7:27:30 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: MtnClimber
Dems Are Getting Mugged By Reality, Often Literally

Excellent!

Couldn't happen to a more worthless group.

13 posted on 11/27/2023 7:30:03 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats haven’t been mugged yet. Until they suffer huge election losses, they won’t learn a thing. Right now they’re riding the abortion bubble.


14 posted on 11/27/2023 7:38:01 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

I am reminded of one store owner in San Francisco who recently had to close her store for good due to being robbed at daytime and being broken into at night multiple times.

I did a Google search on her to see which way she swayed politically. Sure enough, I found a comment of hers posted on some message board in 2017, shortly after Trump was elected. In her comment she said how she was worried if her business would survive the upcoming Trump years.

Her business not only survived, it thrived and prospered under Trump. It was under the Biden administration her business had to be closed for good.


15 posted on 11/27/2023 7:55:03 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 11/27/2023 8:01:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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