Even Liberal Maureen Dowd of the Times Admits DC Is Crime-Ridden

Proving the old saw that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, one of the New York Times’ marquee columnists has agreed — grudgingly, stubbornly, kicking and screaming — that President Trump is right: There’s too much crime in the nation’s capital.

And, just possibly, Washington, DC, currently under Democratic control, could benefit from Trump calling in the National Guard and other feds to help restore law and order.

“It’s ridiculous to drag F.B.I. agents from their desks to be cops on the beat. And the tableau of National Guard troops — even unarmed — raises the specter of martial law being normalized and weaponized,” Pulitzer Prize-winning DC-based scribe Maureen Dowd wrote over the weekend.

Then La Dowd suddenly hit the brakes, skidded, and did a complete 180.

“It is also true that many D.C. residents are secretly glad to see more uniforms. No matter what statistics say, they don’t feel safe.”