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America’s Cities Reach Point Of No Return

by | Jun 16, 2025 | Top Ten

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Daily Caller by Natalie Sandoval

Detroit was once known as the “Paris of the West.” So was San Francisco. Cincinnati, too, claimed the moniker. At the turn of the 20th century, the United States had no shortage of jewels in its crown. Today, these cities bear little resemblance to the Paris of popular imagination, though they bear a similar enough resemblance to Paris as it now stands. A crisis of leadership threatens not just the United States, but the entire Western world.

Turn your attention to the Los Angeles riots – or protests, depending on your publication – which have engulfed the city in the preceding week and a half. The message from belligerent Angelinos is clear: “We will not rest until we are permitted to disobey federal laws we don’t like.” The window for coasting on the civilizational gains of ancestral betters is rapidly closing. The fight between local leadership and the federal government will decide whether America is a nation at all, or a loose assemblage of economic parts.

State leadership has rallied behind this rebellion. “If you are looting and vandalizing downtown, you do not care about the immigrant community,” Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles wrote on X. But she’s obstinately defended the rights of illegal migrants to continue living and working in the United States, describing deportation raids as “attacks on our immigration community.” Bass characterized the presence of the National Guard in the city as an attempt “solely to cause chaos and the people of Los Angeles – and our troops – don’t deserve it.”

Democrats like Bass have adopted the framing of “chaos” to describe Trump’s efforts to restore order. Democratic Gov. of California Gavin Newsom, too, issued several statements condemning chaos. Not that of the rioters, but that supposedly issuing from President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.

“His plan is clear: Incite violence and chaos in blue states, have an excuse to militarize our cities, demonize his opponents, keep breaking the law and consolidate power,” Newsom stated on X, attaching a photo of a Truth Social post from Trump. “It’s illegal and we will not let it stand.”

This is roughly equivalent to saying that a lawmaker is “inciting violence” by prohibiting constituents from committing grand larceny. One might argue that violence is a second order effect of law enforcement – but that seems a condemnation of the impulse control of one’s constituents, not law enforcement itself.

Now, Newsom is suing Trump and the Department of Defense for an “illegal takeover of CalGuard unit,” calling it an “unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.” This is just the latest in Newsom’s long history of opposition to law and order. Since being sworn into office as governor in January 2019, Newsom has plunged California ever deeper into crisis.

An overwhelming majority of voters approved Proposition 36, which would increase criminal punishments for shoplifting and theft previously reduced by Proposition 47. Newsom elected to ignore that mandate, excluding funding for Prop 36 in his revised 2025 budget.

Maybe Newsom’s just strapped for cash after doling out Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants. That would explain why he moved to close another state prison in May – the fifth state prison he’s closed during his governorship, according to CalMatters.

“The Founding Fathers did not live and die to see that happen in this country for no reason whatsoever than vanity,” Newsom posted on X about the Trump administration’s crackdown in Los Angeles. One very sincerely doubts whether George Washington and John Adams lived and died so that shirtless men could wave foreign flags atop burning vehicles. Then again, they were men of mighty forethought, so who knows?

It’s not just Los Angeles. Or California. Turmoil has engulfed Portland, Chicago, and Seattle. It would be a mistake to cede these cities as irrecoverable dens of leftism. These are some of America’s most important economic and cultural hubs. To reclaim them will be an uphill battle. And a worthy one.

New York City, America’s biggest metropolis, is flirting with disaster at this very moment as early voting for the mayoral primary begins. The ballot is not hard-pressed for good candidates.

Andrew Cuomo, who served as Democratic Gov. of New York from 2011 to 2021, is challenging incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. Cuomo peddles himself as tough – not on crime, really, but on Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump only picks fights that he can win. He cannot win a fight with me as mayor of New York,” he said in a recent mayoral debate.

Cuomo’s track record on law enforcement is muddled, to say the least. Return to 2020. Toppling historic statues was a “healthy expression” of rage, according to the former governor. That year, Cuomo also complained about a lackluster response to looters, despite his own bail reform policies having opened that door.  (RELATED: Liberals Squander First Chance To Learn From 2020 Mistakes)

But Zohran Mamdani, a New York City mayoral candidate and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, makes Cuomo look downright Republican. Mamdani supported the “defund the police” movement. He wants to divert $1.1 billion from the understaffed New York City Police Department (NYPD) to create a Department of Community Safety. Taxpayer dollars would be funneled towards such ventures as “addressing hate violence” and “supporting victims.”

Mamdani is too radical even for the New York Times editorial board. Mamdani is “running on an agenda uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges … He minimizes the importance of policing,” the outlet writes. “More worrisome, he shows little concern about the disorder of the past decade, even though its costs have fallen hardest on the city’s working-class and poor residents.”

The conditions appear ripe for a charismatic Republican to infiltrate a blue city. That is, if Democrat voters can set aside their party loyalty and will themselves to elect a man who might actually do them some good.

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