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For most of the past eight years, it's been a no-brainer to be a Democratic mayor in a bright blue city. As long as they proudly pledge their opposition to MAGA, the left's leaders will be reelected in good faith, no matter how bad things get.
But there are real signs that all this is about to change, with opposition to President-elect Donald Trump's ambitious deportation policies by liberal mayors of so-called sanctuary cities the latest possibility that could change the game. There is.
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No one expected San Francisco to be the place where a national shift to the right in American cities would begin, but as soon-to-be former mayor and progressive London Breed says, that's exactly what has happened. .
A similar incident occurred in Oakland, where left-wing Mayor Shen Thao was shown the door by voters fed up with the same crimes ravaging the city across the bay.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and former President Donald Trump (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post, left, Mario Tama/Getty Images, right)
Now, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has vowed to be willing to go to prison for resisting President Trump's “immoral” and “un-American” deportation plan, and America is in the midst of a “Tiananmen Square” moment. He even predicted that he would face With citizens resisting military tanks on the streets!
Or something.
But days later, Johnson walked back at least some of his ridiculous anti-Trump comments, saying: “I probably wouldn't have used that image. It's an image I hope we can avoid.” said.
I hope it can be avoided? To be perfectly clear, the American people are not in any way inciting an insurrection to stop the Trump administration's violent deportation of illegal immigrants. That's an insane concept.
Donald Trump won the election and increased his approval ratings in various deep blue cities because of violent criminals such as the monster who killed Laken Riley and members of the Torren de Aragua gang in Venezuela Because he promised to deport them from the country.
Last April, it was reported that Denver, a city of 710,000 people, had taken in a staggering 40,000 immigrants and spent a staggering $60 million to house them.
In nearby Aurora, illegal immigrant gangs have taken over entire apartment buildings, terrorizing residents and straining law enforcement.
In one of the most shocking moments of the election, ABC News' Martha Raditz told then-Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance that it was just “a handful of apartment complexes,” and In response, Vance famously quipped:
“Martha, can you hear me? Only 'a handful' of apartment complexes have been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and the problem is Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris' open borders?”
ah.
Although clearly unreasonable, this appears to be the exact position currently held by Mayor Mike of the Mile High City.
What Mayors Breed and Thao learned from this year's defeats is that even in the most reliably healthy cities there are tipping points, moments when a breakdown in quality of life impacts elections.
In San Francisco in August, I spoke with Joseph, who owns a salon and told me that he and his husband were taxed 50 percent, and that he entertained me with stories of violent crimes he had personally witnessed. He let me.
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I don't know if Joseph voted against Breed, but that wouldn't be surprising at all.
Democratic mayors like Denver's Johnston argue that because open borders are literally pro-crime policies, the border crisis is just as destructive to quality of life as the pro-crime policies for which Mr. Breed and Mr. Thao were punished. We need to wake up to that fact.
Residents of Denver and many American cities see the Biden Building with tents set up for immigrants, see roving bands of unemployed young men, and know that people in Aurora fear gangs. , America's homeless people, including veterans, are not lavished with the same benefits that immigrants enjoy.
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If Johnston and Democratic mayors like him want to avoid the ignominious fate of London Breed and Tao, they should open their eyes and see if Donald Trump is making their cities safer. They need to realize that helping them do that is actually what voters want them to do.
The American people, even in the most liberal cities, do not want four years of bloody resistance to Trump. they already had it. They want secure borders and effective immigration policies.
Democratic mayors who do not understand this fundamental dynamic run the risk of turning a very short political plan into a very long one that will come sooner or later.
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