Posted on 09/20/2025 11:24:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
National Democrats and media critics slammed President Donald Trump’s choice to deploy the National Guard to the crime-ridden streets of Washington, DC as ineffectual and unnecessary — or worse, a dangerous sign of creeping fascism.
As it turns out, one week after Trump’s emergency order commandeering local police quietly expired, his action was a lesson in how quickly empowered law-enforcement officers can clean up a city.
Thirty days after Trump’s August order, the crime statistics are undeniable: Both violent crime and property crime have dropped by roughly a fifth, and carjackings alone declined by 37%.
The dramatic change in DC’s public spaces is impossible to deny.
The district’s many tent cities — havens for public drug abuse that stood undisturbed since the days Black Lives Matter riots raged — have been cleared out and their denizens sent packing, proving that it didn’t take a miracle, just a commitment to cleaning up the mess.
The before-and-after scenes in the halls of Union Station, a gorgeous monument to travel that welcomes thousands of tourists and commuters daily, are stunning.
Where for years the bright marble was stained with food and smelled of urine, today a clean and vagrant-free station once again feels safe for all comers.
For Democrats willing to listen, the political lesson of DC is clear: No one who works with Trump in such an effort will be punished for it, if they deliver on the changes that citizens demand.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, proving herself a savvier leader than many in her party, knew the stakes.
She wants her legacy to be the return of Washington’s football franchise to the district, 30 years after it fled to the safer environs of Prince George’s County, Maryland — and the development of a vast new stadium complex that will bring new commerce and even a...
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DemonicRATS will just walk all over the fresh paint and act like nothing happened.
National Democrats and media critics slammed President Donald Trump of dangerous sign of creeping fascism.
That’s rich again the democrats and pimps call Trump what they are NO SALE sign blinking.
As it turns out, one week after Trump’s emergency order commandeering local police quietly expired, his action was a lesson in how quickly empowered law-enforcement officers can clean up a city.
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Uh - Yeah - Thank You Captain Obvious. The cops know who the bad guys are, all they need is a serious DA and mayor.
INTO
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