Honestly, the US is largely safer than it’s ever been. Not sure why this is a constant drumbeat but folks will buy it up, I suppose.
Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don't get that it's somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.
And they certainly don’t understand that safety has emerged from better public services but so it goes.
The dems haven't been counter-messaging against the republicans bullshit. In 2022, the dem message was "fund the police", and now they're campaigning on shutting the border down and building a wall.
You can't outflank the republicans from the right. People who like that shit are going to vote republican anyways. Dems can promise to transfer every school's budget to the police, and republicans will still get those voters when they promise to double it.
Every time the dems talk about how tough they'll be on crime, they're admitting that the essential republican stance is better than their own.
I agree with this. You can make a competent, easily digestible message that public safety, better quality of life, etc. comes from investing in common public services. Crime goes down when there’s better public health and education.
Both sides are very fearful, one of what he tells them to be fearful of, the other of what he's said he's going to do.
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