Dems’ Foolish DC-Policing Fury, Identity Politics – Latest News
Crime beat: Dems’ Foolish DC-Policing Fury
“Democrats in Washington, D.C., are furious — not because violent crime was spiraling out of control, but because President Donald Trump did something to stop it,” marvels the Federalist’s Brianna Lyman. A Washington Post ballot exhibits roughly 80% of residents oppose Trump sending within the National Guard, however more than 70% of these polled are Democrats, “whose reflex answer to anything involving Trump is always ‘wrong.’” Yet: “For the first time in years, D.C. just went seven straight days without a single homicide,” together with an 83% drop in carjackings, a 46% decline in robberies and total 22% fall in crime. So a lot for the 65% of district residents a ballot discovered “confidently declared that the deployment will not reduce violent crime in the city.”
Members of the National Guard patrol close to the US Capitol on the National Mall close to the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Aug. 20, 2025. AFP through Getty Images
From the fitting: ‘Watchdogs’ Pushing Propaganda
In citing “the unprecedented number of journalists killed” within the Israel-Hamas warfare watchdog teams “rely on an expansive definition of the word ‘journalist,’” observes Jamie Kirchik at The Wall Street Journal since “there is no independent media to speak of in Gaza,” “journalists operate at either the direct command or the mercy of Hamas and other terrorist groups.” Thus, on a itemizing of casualties from the Committee to Protect Journalists, almost half overtly “worked for media owned by or affiliated with terrorist organizations,” to not point out these employed by Al Jazeera, funded by Hamas’ most important sponsor, Qatar. For occasion, Israel accused accused Ismail al-Ghoul, of Al Jazeera, of collaborating within the Oct. 7 assault, and so it “killed him in a targeted air strike. in July 2024.” In short, “What’s being hyped as an unprecedented attack on journalists is actually a cynical salvo in an information war.”
Liberal: Identity Politics Would’ve Killed Hamilton
“One can’t help but wonder what the reaction would have been” if playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda “had tried to mount” his landmark musical “Hamilton” in “2020, when identity politics had taken over the Democratic Party, not to mention liberalism more generally,” muses The Free Press’ Joe Nocera. “The multiracial cast was the reason a show that was so uncritical of our flawed Founding Fathers wound up being so universally praised,” however post-2020, “it is hard to imagine” it will be “embraced by the left,” which is now “demanding racial literalism.” Though “from a Trumpian point of view, Hamilton would seem to be a singing and dancing exercise in DEI,” actually “the show has always transcended contemporary politics. Neither the progressive left nor the MAGA right can put a glove on it.”
President Trump visits the US Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on Aug. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images
Democrat: It’s Feeling Like 1988 Again
“If Democrats aren’t careful, we are about to relive one of the most painful and avoidable election outcomes for our party in modern American politics,” warns 2012 Obama marketing campaign supervisor Jim Messina at Substack, pointing to 1988. That 12 months, Dem nominee Mike Dukakis was up 17 factors after the get together’s conference —- however then “failed to drive home a compelling vision for the future”; ultimately, “George H.W. Bush won in a relative landslide.” Today, “the notion that we can just be ‘anti-Trump’ or ‘anti-MAGA’ and ride a wave of discontent to victory in 2028 is a fantasy.” That means “a clear economic vision” from a chief who tasks “strength, competence, and control” and isn’t painfully “culturally out of step” on fundamental values.
Media watch: Fired Hacks Now Shout into Void
“Deranged left-wing hacks masquerading as ‘mainstream’” journalists who misplaced their prestigious TV or print posts now “keep reminding us why they never deserved our respect,” snarks the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles. For instance, Jim Acosta, “that annoying guy at press conferences who wouldn’t shut up,” has fallen from CNN to a Substack web page that gives paid entry to “exclusive interviews with respected newsmakers” (hah!) “such as Molly Jong-Fast, Beto O’Rourke, Judd Legum, Lev Parnas, and Steve Schmidt.” “Stripped of their fancy titles and exorbitant salaries,” these once-esteemed frauds are no totally different than so many “other Trump-addled internet posters shrieking into the void.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
