Posted on 11/26/2021 8:16:28 AM PST by karpov
Here’s the common reaction to the Waukesha, Wis., murders: It’s nuts that the suspect, with his long criminal history, was free on $1,000 bail posted days before the automotive rampage.
Here’s New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a tweet the day after the Waukesha murders: “Today, we sent a letter . . . to NYC’s 5 District Attorneys requesting information on excessive bail in the NYC court system.” The letter was also signed by fellow New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney and Maryland’s Jamie Raskin.
That disconnect will haunt Democrats. Waukesha is one of those rare moments when the consequences of an extreme ideology are brutally exposed to a nation. It’s a big new midterm problem for Democrats, one that could prove as difficult to overcome as rising inflation, Covid surges and parental backlash against educational fads like critical race theory.
Crime is soaring nationally, after progressives spent years pushing to water down bail rules, forgo prosecutions, release prisoners and even defund the police. The governors, mayors and prosecutors who indulged these demands uniformly have Ds behind their names.
The numbers had already been spiraling into a political problem. The violence that the left egged on in the wake of George Floyd’s murder has only grown. Nationally, homicides increased by 30% from 2019 to 2020. Chicago is likely to end 2021 with its highest murder rate in 25 years. Portland, Ore., home to routine violent riots, is on track to surpass 1,200 shootings this year, compared with 400 in 2019. Los Angeles recorded more homicides in July than in any month for more than a decade.
Citizens have already responded at the ballot box. On Nov. 2, Minneapolis voters rejected an initiative to abolish the police force. Pro-policing candidates won mayoral races in New York City ( Eric Adams )
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There’s a reason most prison inmates are democrats... birds of a feather and all...
What these prosecutors are doing rises to the level of criminality. They KNOW what will happen. I don’t know what to call it - but ‘conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment’ sounds like a legit crime to me.
They take our taxes and then snub their responsibility - call it theft or fraud....something has to give.
Until they’re held accountable for their recklessness this is only going to get worse.
WSJ, Floyd was not murdered.
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No, of course not. 1/4 to 1/3 were assistant Democrats!
They kept Merrick Garland off of the Supreme Court.
“They kept Merrick Garland off of the Supreme Court.”
One accomplishment. No repeal of O’care. No defunding of Parenthood or PBS. No balanced budget. No border wall (Trump had to redeploy other funds for the wall because the GOP Congress wouldn’t fund it), no rolling back any of the grands to social justice organizations or programs that have failed for decades. Is that what we can expect if the GOP captures Congress in the 2022 election? If so, then the Republic is dead. Without a full time unified 24/7 assault against the Biden program by a GOP Congress, nothing will happen.
They may tell lies about what's going on, but they are OK with it.
Those morons only had to call the cops and keep the suspect under surveillance. They are one of the rare examples of the term racist being used accurately.
Besides, it is already disappearing from The Narrative.
Soon it will have never happened.
Gotta have an SUV round up, get rid the pesky things maybe put them on one of those wild life preserves.
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