Democrats’ head-scratching reaction to Trump’s DC crime crackdown puts them at odds with voters
By Miranda Devine
Published Aug. 31, 2025, 11:23 p.m. ET
The unhinged hostility to Donald Trump’s successful crime crackdown in Washington, DC, puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking?
Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is a “major problem,” according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week.
The other 19% must be either criminals or blue-city politicians — or both.
The president’s approval rating has shot up from 40% in July to 45%, likely as a result of his deployment of the National Guard to DC and his promise to replicate the model in crime-ridden cities from Chicago to Baltimore and New York.
In DC, the crime rate has plummeted across the board, with violent crime down 30% since federal troops were deployed on Aug. 7, according to the White House.
The Metropolitan Police Department is even more bullish, citing a 40% drop in violent crime over the same period last year. That includes carjacking, which dropped a staggering 82%.
Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted new crime statistics for DC on Sunday, boasting of 1,528 arrests, including 156 illegal guns seized.
“This includes two arrests for threats against law enforcement, an arrest for assault on federal officers with threats to kill President Trump, and an illegal alien MS-13 gang member,” she said.
Nearly half of the arrests have been of illegal migrant criminals, including violent felons convicted of rape, child molestation, assault, and robbery with a deadly weapon.
DC residents, most of whom are black, are expressing relief at being able to live without fear of being robbed or assaulted.
Yet Democratic shills are all over CNN and MSNBC calling Trump a “dictator” and saying his crackdown on “so-called crime” is racist and a “military occupation.”
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