Yesterday I explained the deeper reasons — beyond Trump Derangement Syndrome — why the Left is at once pro-censorship and pro-police state, but also pro-open borders and pro-crime: to beat the citizenry into learned helplessness so nobody pushes back against elites who rule by decree.
Today let’s celebrate the fact that the explicit embrace of anarcho-tyranny doesn’t play well with voters outside a few cossetted neighborhoods, the criminal underclass, and foreign invaders. Everybody else is viscerally repulsed. See these comments from D.C. residents praising President Donald Trump’s initiative. (H/T Revolver News)
Lifelong D.C. residents react to @POTUS‘s actions to Make D.C. Safe Again:
“I’m just ecstatic. I’ve been saying that a long time ago — the federal government should take over the D.C. Police Department.”
“I think Donald Trump really wants to clean it up — and I’m all for it.” pic.twitter.com/F1qMQ12JkZ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 11, 2025
BREAKING: The President of the DC Police Union has come out in FULL SUPPORT of President Trump’s takeover of the police department
“We completely agree with the President that the crime in the District of Columbia is out of control and something needs to be done.
The fact… pic.twitter.com/FBI2gawJk6
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 11, 2025
The Washington Reporter found such reactions widespread, even among Washingtonians whose anti-Trump politics meant they praised his new initiative through gritted liberal teeth:
One female Hill staffer, who pays $3,000 a month for rent in Navy Yard, told the Reporter that she “saw someone get arrested the other day in my lobby at like 5:30pm. Someone also got shot in March and the blood puddle was left overnight and everyone saw it in the main lobby,” she said.
For the first time in years, Trump’s announcement has many in the city feeling hopeful; one GOP veteran told the Reporter that he felt safe walking around his neighborhood — where he and his wife were nearly shot in broad daylight — for the first time in three years. “I haven’t walked that way before tonight when I saw the police out in full force,” he said.
One D.C. denizen who has worked downtown for 30 years has seen the city’s crime ebb and flow — but he said that “it was very bad when I first got here but it’s even worse now.”
“You couldn’t pay me to go to Union Station any more,” he said. “Anyone who lives or works here knows the reality. Those that deny that reality are doing it only because of their irrational hatred of Trump.”
“The most dangerous place to be a woman in America is a Democrat-run city,” a female Hill staffer wrote to the Reporter. “Thank god!!!!!!” she added, describing D.C. as a scene out of Silence of the Lambs.
If the Democrats were genuinely concerned, as they pretend to be, that Trump’s perfectly constitutional takeover of D.C. law enforcement is a giant step toward tyranny, they’d be out there acknowledging the facts: that Washington, D.C., has been driven to the brink of becoming uninhabitable except for those with embassy guards or private security.
Next, those same Democrats would be coming forth with hard-headed, pragmatic plans for reducing violent crime and restoring public order. Then and only then would they raise whatever constitutional objections they had to Trump’s more straightforward plan, and explain why it’s overreaction in their opinion.
Nope, not a peep of such sanity or public-spirited engagement. Instead, as Gateway Pundit reports:
Democrats and liberal media outlets have characterized President Trump’s activation of the D.C. National Guard and federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department as “tyranny,” “Nazi,” and other inflammatory terms. Local officials, including Mayor Muriel Bowser and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have called the move “unsettling and unprecedented” and “a historic assault on D.C. home rule.”
HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are taking to DC’s Dupont Circle and heading towards 14th Street NW to voice opposition to Trump’s DC Police takeover. pic.twitter.com/rOlB1NX9ud
— Jim Lokay (@Lokay) August 11, 2025
Meanwhile, on the crackpot far Right, reactions are even more deranged:
The Israelis want you to crack down on crime and make our cities safer. Take that! pic.twitter.com/M7s02asJyi
— captive dreamer (@avaricum777) August 12, 2025
Wondering why violent crime is such an urgent issue to Trump and his base? Check out the reaction of self-appointed “community leaders” to the felony charges lodged against a black mob that targeted an innocent white man in Cincinnati for a robbery and violent beatdown:
BREAKING: Black community leaders call on Cincinnati to charge the white victim of the downtown attack
“The white guy incited 6 felonies” pic.twitter.com/g7u94w1Clv
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 12, 2025
Americans know where the Left is headed. We read reports from countries where the elites are waging open war against the people, such as Great Britain, where native-born citizens now rot in prison for posting about uncontrolled immigration, while immigrants walk free after committing violent crimes:
A Nigerian man who sexually assaulted a young woman next to Bournemouth beach has been spared jail because of his ‘troubled background and difficult life’.
Ayomide Famakinde, 23, was given a community order by the judge who said the offence was a ‘momentary aberration’.… pic.twitter.com/o9uQSuqjjH
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 12, 2025
But there are some crimes our ruling classes simply will not tolerate — as Joe Biden’s targeting of pro-lifers should remind us:
BREAKING: British Police Arrest Pro-Life Woman Third Time for Praying Outside Abortion Center https://t.co/LgAemuZyxt pic.twitter.com/5fqoN4w99r
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) August 12, 2025
100,000-Plus Citizens Apply to Help ICE Restore Order and Sovereignty
Despite the violent abuse to which mobs of open-borders activists often subject them , ICE officers are seeing a surge of Americans who wish to join their ranks, Fox News reports:
More than 100,000 Americans have applied for roles with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since the organization began a recruiting drive at the end of last month, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump’s administration launched a drive to hire 10,000 additional ICE agents at the end of July, offering incentives to candidates and removing certain limits on who can apply. The total number of applicants has now eclipsed 100,000 in barely two weeks. The agency had received 80,000 applicants as of August 6.
Thank God for courageous Americans. They’re stepping into the breach, and their lives won’t be easy. Again, from Fox:
The recruitment drive comes amid what has been at least an 830% increase in assaults on agents amid riots and protests throughout the country, according to DHS data. [DHS Secretary Kristi] Noem said last week that number has since spiked to 1,000%.
Foreign-Born Population Finally Declines
Despite immense resistance both in lawless courts and blue-city streets, Trump’s effort to rein in immigration chaos is showing concrete results, Just the News notes:
The foreign-born population of the United States declined by 2.2 million people since January, according to an analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
That figure includes an estimated 1.6 million illegal aliens. The CIS based its report on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data and suggested that much of the exodus stemmed from self-deportations driven by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Last Minute “Biden” Pardons Now in the Crosshairs
Speaking of the rule of law — and its absence — Lifezette reports that two of the most lawless, anti-American employees of the Biden regime might be biting their nails today:
House Republicans on the Oversight Committee are investigating Joe Biden’s final-hour pardons of Dr. Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley, both of whom were granted clemency in the closing days of Biden’s administration….
Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) confirmed that the panel will seek further documentation from the former administration to determine whether Biden, 82, was fully aware of the pardons when an autopen was used to sign them.
The committee is looking into whether aides, rather than Biden himself, authorized the pardons.
Along The Stream…
Watch this powerful, firsthand testimony of spiritual warfare: Former satanic high wizard Zachary King explains his journey from being part of the Illuminati to escaping his life of darkness and becoming a Christian.
In this thoughtful column, William Kilpatrick asks “If the Media Lies About Everything, Why Should We Believe Anything It Says About Israel?” Why, indeed.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
