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For most of the past eight years, being a Democratic mayor in a bright blue city has been a pretty easy task. As long as they beat their chests and vowed to oppose MAGA, no matter how bad things got, these left-wing leaders would be dutifully reinstalled.
But there are real signs that all this could change, and opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation policies by liberal mayors of so-called sanctuary cities could be a game-changer.
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You wouldn’t expect San Francisco to be the place where a national shift to the right in American cities begins, and yet, as soon-to-be former mayor and progressive darling London Breed will tell you, that’s exactly what which just happened.
It also happened in Oakland, where left-wing Mayor Sheng Thao was shown the door by voters fed up with the same crime 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)
Today in Denver, Mayor Mike Johnston vowed he was willing to go to jail for defying what he calls Trump’s “immoral” and “un-American” deportation plans, and even predicted that America would face a “Tiananmen Square” moment. with citizens in the streets defying military tanks!
Or something like that.
Yet days later, Johnson walked back at least some of his absurd anti-Trump rants, saying, “I probably wouldn’t have used that image. This is the image I hope we can avoid. »
I hope we can avoid ? Let’s be absolutely clear: The American people are in no way going to incite an uprising to stop the Trump administration from deporting violent illegal immigrants. It’s a crazy idea.
Donald Trump won the election and improved his numbers in various deep blue cities precisely because he promised to deport violent criminals like the monster who murdered Laken Riley and members of the Venezuelan Tren De Aragua gang.
In April of last year, it was reported that Denver, a city of 710,000, had taken in an incredible 40,000 migrants and spent a whopping $60 million to accommodate them.
In the nearby town of Aurora, gangs of illegal immigrants have taken over entire buildings, terrifying residents and straining law enforcement.
In one of the most astonishing moments of the election, ABC News’ Martha Radditz told then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance that it was just a “handful of hangovers.” “apartments,” to which Vance joked:
“Martha, can you hear that? Only a ‘handful’ of apartment complexes have been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem, not Kamala Harris’ open border?”
Ouch.
As absurd as it sounds, this appears to be the exact same position currently held by Mayor Mike of the Mile High City.
What Mayors Breed and Thao learned from their defeats this year is that there is a tipping point, even in the most reliable blue cities, there is a point where the quality of life has electoral consequences.
Last August in San Francisco, I spoke with Joseph, who runs a salon, and he told me that he and his husband were taxed 50 percent and also regaled me with stories of violent crimes he had personally witnessed.
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I don’t know if Joseph voted against Breed, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me.
Democratic mayors like Denver’s Johnston need to wake up to the fact that the border crisis is just as destructive to quality of life as the pro-crime policies for which Breed and Thao were punished, because open borders are literally a policy pro-crime.
The citizens of Denver, and so many American cities, see the Bidenvilles filled with tents set up for migrants, they see the wandering gangs of unemployed young men, they know that the people of Aurora are afraid of gangs, and they know that homeless Americans, including veterans, do not receive the benefits that migrants enjoy.
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If Johnston and Democratic mayors like him wish to avoid the ignominious fate of London Breed and Thao, then they should open their eyes and understand that helping Donald Trump make their cities safer is actually what voters want them to do .
The American people, even in our most liberal cities, do not want four years of bloody resistance to Trump. They already had that. They want a secure border and an immigration policy that works.
Any Democratic mayor who does not understand this fundamental dynamic risks a very long walk on a very short political plank that will arrive sooner rather than later.
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