Progressives have been consistently wrong about the consequences of President Donald Trump's actions. Their overreaction to Trump's decision to establish law and order in Washington, DC, is the most recent example.
On Aug. 11, Trump described our nation's capital as full of "bloodshed, bedlam and squalor." He then deployed National Guard troops and vowed to take over the Metropolitan Police Department to “help reestablish law, order and public safety” in the city.
I lived in the DMV area − DC, Maryland, Virginia − for about a decade. Many of us have our own anecdotes, supported by data, about the decline of our nation's capital.
Trump's order prompted a wave of fact-checking in mainstream media. The New York Times, for example, wrote about fact-checking Trump's "false and misleading claims" about crime. Progressive leaders insisted that the president was not only wrong but also acting like a bully.
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