Red States Begin Crackdown on Crime in Their Own Blue Cities

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Red States Begin Crackdown on Crime in Their Own Blue Cities

Warner Todd Huston 9 Sep 2025

States with Republican-led legislatures are beginning to take action to get around soft-on-crime prosecutors and elected officials in their blue cities by making end runs around them to implement a crackdown on crime without their help.

Very few large cities in the United States have ever had much by way of Republican leadership, even those in strong red states. Tennessee, for instance, is as red as they come, but Nashville has not had a single Republican mayor since Metropolitan Nashville was consolidated in 1963. The last Republican mayor of New Orleans was Benjamin Flanders, who left office in 1872. St. Louis, Missouri’s, last GOP mayor left office in 1949. Louisville, Kentucky’s, last GOP mayor’s term ended in 1969. Jackson, Mississippi, has never had a Republican mayor. Houston, Texas, has only had two GOP mayors since 1929. And on and on it goes.

Many of these cities currently have far-left leadership and even further-left local prosecutors, all of whom are soft on crime and oppose President Trump’s efforts to crack down on crime and to arrest and deport illegal aliens.

Indeed, the endemic crime in America’s big cities has given hypocritical Democrats a talking point. When president Trump has pointed to the crime in blue states, many Democrats and their lapdogs in the media have pointed to the “crime in red states” to somehow show that Trump’s focus on blue state crime is wrongheaded. Unsurprisingly, much of the crime in red states is located in the Democrat-run cities within those states.

With this in mind, a growing number of red states are beginning to tire of the soft-on-crime Democrats running the big cities in their red states and are taking a variety of actions to circumvent those Democrat regimes that are turning their cities into nests of out-of-control crime.

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https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/09/09/red-states-begin-crackdown-crime-their-own-blue-cities/

[roamer_1]

There is a point here...

I view large cities as an infection, impossible to cure. I think that by their nature, they promote liberalism, and I think I can prove that historically.

I think that when you stack up that many people you gain much in efficiency. But it becomes morally anonymous. Neighbors become neighborhoods - a bastardization in itself IMHO - and then neighborhoods sink into the great swamp as they grow more populous. People don't know the folks around em like small towns and rural folks do.

All my life, if a neighbor raises an alarm, I will rise up  to help - because that's what you do - Likely when the police or firemen arise, the whole business is probably over. I think that is missing in large populations. They are trained to rely on a service of the city instead of doing for themselves.

Another thing that is flat missing is killing what you eat. Without that reality, all sorts of fantastic ideas arise. Literal fantasy... There ain't much bunny-hugger crap out here. no 'hunting is murder'... because anyone who lives out here knows better - We cannot abide in that fantasy, because we need to eat, and that's how it's done. If the thought of killing an animal makes you squeamish, then you are living in that fantasy, and can't see right.

I could tick off a few more, but those two are enough. The absence of those two things allows liberalism to grow. And it will. It does every time.There are no Conservative cities. And there never will be. The few one may be able to point to are on their way....  Just like deep red San Diego. In the course of my lifetime, it went from red to whacko-liberal blue. I believe it is a doom. It happens every time.

[Bigun]

There is a point here...

I view large cities as an infection, impossible to cure. I think that by their nature, they promote liberalism, and I think I can prove that historically.

I think that when you stack up that many people you gain much in efficiency. But it becomes morally anonymous. Neighbors become neighborhoods - a bastardization in itself IMHO - and then neighborhoods sink into the great swamp as they grow more populous. People don't know the folks around em like small towns and rural folks do.

All my life, if a neighbor raises an alarm, I will rise up  to help - because that's what you do - Likely when the police or firemen arise, the whole business is probably over. I think that is missing in large populations. They are trained to rely on a service of the city instead of doing for themselves.

Another thing that is flat missing is killing what you eat. Without that reality, all sorts of fantastic ideas arise. Literal fantasy... There ain't much bunny-hugger crap out here. no 'hunting is murder'... because anyone who lives out here knows better - We cannot abide in that fantasy, because we need to eat, and that's how it's done. If the thought of killing an animal makes you squeamish, then you are living in that fantasy, and can't see right.

I could tick off a few more, but those two are enough. The absence of those two things allows liberalism to grow. And it will. It does every time.There are no Conservative cities. And there never will be. The few one may be able to point to are on their way....  Just like deep red San Diego. In the course of my lifetime, it went from red to whacko-liberal blue. I believe it is a doom. It happens every time.

“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:230

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442

“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”

Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

“Our cities... exhibit specimens of London only; our country is a different nation.”

 Thomas Jefferson to Andre de Daschkoff, 1809. ME 12:304

[Free Vulcan]

There is a point here...

I view large cities as an infection, impossible to cure. I think that by their nature, they promote liberalism, and I think I can prove that historically.

I think that when you stack up that many people you gain much in efficiency. But it becomes morally anonymous. Neighbors become neighborhoods - a bastardization in itself IMHO - and then neighborhoods sink into the great swamp as they grow more populous. People don't know the folks around em like small towns and rural folks do.

All my life, if a neighbor raises an alarm, I will rise up  to help - because that's what you do - Likely when the police or firemen arise, the whole business is probably over. I think that is missing in large populations. They are trained to rely on a service of the city instead of doing for themselves.

Another thing that is flat missing is killing what you eat. Without that reality, all sorts of fantastic ideas arise. Literal fantasy... There ain't much bunny-hugger crap out here. no 'hunting is murder'... because anyone who lives out here knows better - We cannot abide in that fantasy, because we need to eat, and that's how it's done. If the thought of killing an animal makes you squeamish, then you are living in that fantasy, and can't see right.

I could tick off a few more, but those two are enough. The absence of those two things allows liberalism to grow. And it will. It does every time.There are no Conservative cities. And there never will be. The few one may be able to point to are on their way....  Just like deep red San Diego. In the course of my lifetime, it went from red to whacko-liberal blue. I believe it is a doom. It happens every time.

And none of this life is being forced on them. They vote for it by large margins well beyond the Rat cheating threshold. So what do you do?

I can see Red states taking steps to solve it, but at the end of the day it will likely be no more than a band-aid.

The problem is the only solution at that point is the nastiest one - a wave of hard times that will greatly reduce the urban population. They will be hollowed out wastelands at that point.

[roamer_1]

“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:230

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442

“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”

Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

“Our cities... exhibit specimens of London only; our country is a different nation.”

 Thomas Jefferson to Andre de Daschkoff, 1809. ME 12:304

As I said, I think it can be proven historically. Go back further... Ancient Rome, Carthage, Pompeii, Memphis... It don't matter where you look, it's the same canker.

And you can bet money in all them places, there were farmers and ranchers looking over that way and shaking their heads.

[roamer_1]

And none of this life is being forced on them. They vote for it by large margins well beyond the Rat cheating threshold. So what do you do?

I can see Red states taking steps to solve it, but at the end of the day it will likely be no more than a band-aid.

The problem is the only solution at that point is the nastiest one - a wave of hard times that will greatly reduce the urban population. They will be hollowed out wastelands at that point.

And so it goes. 

The only cure I can see is to raise them kids up right. It's still 35 kids to a classroom, no matter where. But any propping up you do is doomed to fail - As I said, look all the way down through history - it's the same dang thing.

[Bigun]

And so it goes. 

The only cure I can see is to raise them kids up right. It's still 35 kids to a classroom, no matter where. But any propping up you do is doomed to fail - As I said, look all the way down through history - it's the same dang thing.

How can that happen when we now have four generations of people who have never known anything other than welfare checks they don't get if they cohabit with the fathers?

[roamer_1]

Just look at one thing for a minute... Garbage.

Give me a garden and a compost heap. Just those two things and my garbage output reduces by well over half. two kitchen sized garbage bags would keep my house easy for a month. I know. I've done it.

But that was when I was hale. That was when I hauled my own garbage. It all wet in the compost heap or in the burn barrel. Because otherwise I had to haul it away.

I am still frugal, even now, mind. But now I produce an embarrassing array of garbage. And the service hauls it away, and dumps it on that monstrous artificial mountain that is the county dump.

Just that difference. Really look at that. And imagine what millions and millions produce, with no thought toward the mess they make, because they don't have to haul it off. That one difference. Look what it makes.

[roamer_1]

How can that happen when we now have four generations of people who have never known anything other than welfare checks they don't get if they cohabit with the fathers?

That's why it can't be fixed. It is an enchantment, in the literal sense. They think money pays the price, which is not true. the price is always blood in the end... And it will be paid.

So they teach the enchantment to their children, because it is what they know... and so it goes.

And evil arises. Evil. And then the only thing to do is burn it out. It happens every time.

[berdie]

There is a point here...

I view large cities as an infection, impossible to cure. I think that by their nature, they promote liberalism, and I think I can prove that historically.

I think that when you stack up that many people you gain much in efficiency. But it becomes morally anonymous. Neighbors become neighborhoods - a bastardization in itself IMHO - and then neighborhoods sink into the great swamp as they grow more populous. People don't know the folks around em like small towns and rural folks do.

All my life, if a neighbor raises an alarm, I will rise up  to help - because that's what you do - Likely when the police or firemen arise, the whole business is probably over. I think that is missing in large populations. They are trained to rely on a service of the city instead of doing for themselves.

Another thing that is flat missing is killing what you eat. Without that reality, all sorts of fantastic ideas arise. Literal fantasy... There ain't much bunny-hugger crap out here. no 'hunting is murder'... because anyone who lives out here knows better - We cannot abide in that fantasy, because we need to eat, and that's how it's done. If the thought of killing an animal makes you squeamish, then you are living in that fantasy, and can't see right.

I could tick off a few more, but those two are enough. The absence of those two things allows liberalism to grow. And it will. It does every time.There are no Conservative cities. And there never will be. The few one may be able to point to are on their way....  Just like deep red San Diego. In the course of my lifetime, it went from red to whacko-liberal blue. I believe it is a doom. It happens every time.

I enjoyed your post. It was spot on. I grew up in Dallas. It was like a small town divided into sections. We all took care of one another.  Living where I have for the last many years it was the same. I once knew everybody and in my immediate area we all gathered once a month for pot luck. But as us oldies die or move to facilities, the new kids on the block have no interest in forming bonds. So I'm convinced it is a sign of the times and changes in humans.

Opening day of dove season was 9/1. I really can't hunt anymore and was trying to think of someone to beg some birds from...and came up dry. In fact, I haven't heard a single gun shot.  So I called my sil in west Tx (big bird hunting country) and she didn't know anyone either! I think the hunters are waning as well.

In a later post you talked about burning trash in a barrel. It does make a person more aware, doesn't it. I still could if I could either clean out the barrels or haul them off. Not in my wheelhouse these days. I'll just pay the price to have it hauled.

I'm not sure I like all these changes.