Harris’ evolution from tough on crime to lenient reflects the evolution of the elite on crime.
Turn the clock back about thirty years, and Rudy Giuliani’s tough on crime approach collapsed crime in New York City. His approach - called “broken windows” - became a model for cities across the country. We were making real progress against crime. Our cities were thriving and this was making life much better for people who live in cities, esp. poorer people.
Giuliani’s approach was initially embraced by his successor, Michael Bloomberg. But, then, things started to change. With crime rates down, it was thought that civil liberty should trump law and order. No more stop and frisk. Then, no more arresting of turnstile jumpers. Eventually, shoplifting was de-criminalized, cash bail was abolished, and there was agitation to defund the police. Come the pandemic, and the first thing many places did was release the criminals onto the streets.
The rejection of tough on crime is reflected in Bloomberg’s disastrous attempt at the Democratic nomination in 2020. In spite of spending $1 billion (loose change to him), Bloomberg went nowhere. The Democrats weren’t at all interested in anybody who ever once was tough on crime.
You also see the rejection of tough on crime in Tulsi Gabbard’s devastating cross-questioning of Kamala Harris in an early debate for the Democratic nomination that year. Harris withdrew rather than defend her record or explain her transition.
As a result of the shift to leniency on crime, life became hell in our cities, and people in suburban and rural places fear that they are next.
And it’s all due to leftist immaturity.
THIS JUST IN-poll reveals what Americans REALLY think
about Kamala Harris’s role WRT a Biden health ‘cover-up’
Daily Mail ^ | 7/28/24 | Katelyn Caralle
FR Posted on 7/28/2024, 7:09:41 AM by Libloather
A staggering number of U.S. voters think that Vice President Kamala Harris was at least partially involved in covering-up the extent of President Joe Biden’s mental decline. Biden, 81, ended his reelection bid last weekend amid a flurry of calls for him to step aside after a disastrous debate performance and ensuing weeks of flubs and missteps from which he could not recover. Harris immediately stepped in as his replacement and took over Biden’s campaign. Two days later, the VP earned enough delegates to become the Democrat’s presumed 2024 nominee.
But a whopping 92 percent of registered voters in a new YouGov/Times of London poll say that Harris was behind the efforts to conceal Biden’s failing cognitive fitness and physical well-being as his staff maintained to press and the public that the president was fit for a second term. The survey of 1,170 voters taken July 22 and 23 asked whether they believed there was an effort to shield Biden’s mental health from the public and who was responsible for the cover-up.
Fifty-four percent of respondents said there was a cover-up and 30 percent said they don’t believe there was one. Sixteen percent aren’t sure. The switch-up in the 2024 election has left many with questions over whether there was a plot to keep Biden’s cognitive health under wraps and who plotted to keep secret his declining health.
And 30 percent of those surveyed think that Biden should step down before the end of his term and let Harris take over now. Of those who do believe there was a cover-up, a resounding 68 percent think that Biden’s No. 2 was ‘a great deal’ involved in concealing his true fitness. Seven percent said Harris was ‘a little’ to blame, while 17 percent feel she was ‘somewhat’ responsible.
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