The Democrats are falling into the trap of defending the indefensible. You can’t keep saying violent crime is down, but the murder rate is up. To the average person, the murder rate is about life and death. You don’t brag about a rising murder rate.
Chris Matthews (August 13 on MSNBC)
One day, Democrats will appreciate the President’s “new” national security doctrine, because its goal is an all-encompassing “national safety” strategy that ensures safe communities and keeps the US out of never-ending wars. But not today, because the new way of doing things disrupts the status quo (like enriching one’s political cronies and spying on one’s political rivals). Oh, well.
Trump’s “homeland security” means protecting US citizens from criminal illegal aliens (by deporting the latter), protecting residents of Washington DC from rampant crime (by sending in the National Guard), and protecting Harvard’s Jewish community from antisemitism (by denying student visas to anti-American foreigners). His “national security” means preventing Russian aggression by forcing NATO members to spend 5% of their national GDP on defense, preventing a nuclear Iran by preemptive bombing, and ending the Russia-Ukraine War by pressuring both Putin and Zelensky into a (yet to be determined) peace deal.
The only thing missing is support from Democrats (who wouldn’t know a diamond if they held it in their hands). Because they fear the political ramifications of Trump succeeding where Biden failed and acknowledging the failure of their policies and theories. After de-criminalizing many “crimes” and wokifying the US military, most voters now see the Democrat Party as the “systemic problem” in America.
Securing the Homeland
Failed policies look like Biden arresting 57% fewer criminal aliens, convicting 55% fewer criminal aliens, and deporting 67% fewer criminal aliens than Trump in his first term, while releasing 617,607 illegal aliens with criminal records inside the US. These “releases” were convicted of 13,099 homicides and 15,811 sexual assaults (source: ICE).
Failed theories look like “sanctuary cities” New York, Los Angeles and Chicago continually having the nation’s most illegal-alien arrests, and Democrat-run Memphis, Oakland, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit being America’s five “most dangerous cities” (source: US News). So, yeah, Democrats are the “systemic problem” that’s forced the President to send federal law enforcement and US military into their cities.
In response, Democrat mayor Karen Bass bemoaned Trump’s “all-out assault on Los Angeles,” and Muriel Bowser bewailed his “authoritarian push” in Washington DC; when, in fact, the real “all-out assault” on LA were its preventable wildfires ($275 billion in damages) and violent ICE protests ($19.7 million in damages), and the real “authoritarian push” in DC was an MPD captain falsifying crime data (he’s now under DOJ investigation).
The victor in the Trump-Democrat feud is yet uncalled, but I would not bet on Bass, who promised “quick reconstruction” in the wake of the wildfires, or Bowser, who claimed crime was down in 2024. Rebuilding LA’s homes is tied up with state and local regulations and, in the last seven days, DC’s carjackings, robberies and violent crimes are down 83%, 46% and 22%, respectively (source: DC Police Union).
Another step in securing the homeland is denying student visas to foreign trouble-makers. The State Department has already rescinded over 6,000 international-student visas for “overstays” and “law violation” (4,000 for assault, DUI, burglary and 200 for support for terrorism), and imposed stricter screening of a visa applicant’s social media, looking for anti-American content. We’ll played, Secretary Rubio!
Peace on Earth
Joe Biden committed the US “for as long as it takes” to the defense of Ukraine, spent $195 billion and left office without ever pursuing a negotiated cease-fire or peace deal. Then, after Trump pressured Zelensky to be flexible, Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Murphy (D-CT) revived the Russiagate Chorus: “Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work…what you watched was Trump become a lapdog for Moscow.” Except Trump persuaded NATO members to “pay up” to neuter Mr. Putin.
The disconnect between Democrats and their “kindred souls” in the EU and NATO widened after Trump met Putin in Alaska. Sen. Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed “Trump, once again, got played by Vladimir Putin,” but Italian President Meloni and Finnish President Stubb begged to differ: “After 3.5 years, we didn’t see any sign from the Russian side [of] a willingness for dialogue; so, something has changed…in the past two weeks, we’ve had more progress in ending this war than we have in the past 3 1/2 years.”
The disconnect grew Monday when NATO Secretary General Rutte explained the Trump Doctrine on Fox News: “President Trump is a pragmatic peacemaker. His criticism of NATO was right. He always supported NATO, but expected the Europeans to spend more; so today, the conversation was with close friends and allies. What he did – starting the conversation with Putin – without Trump, this deadlock with Putin would not be broken. He was the only one who could do this, starting in February.”
Leaving the Left Behind
Right on cue, NPR reported a NATO flattery campaign targeting Trump’s fragile ego, despite that “flattery” including trillions of Euros to buy US energy, invest in US manufacturing, and boosting Europe’s self-defense (no wonder NPR was de-funded).
And Democrats? Losing party registrations at an alarming rate, because most Americans like the idea of peace abroad, safe communities at home, and stopping criminals, drugs, and anti-Americans at the US border. According to the latest Yale Youth Poll, Gen-Z voters are becoming our “most conservative” generation. In other words, Trump’s new national safety doctrine is probably here to stay.