Trump's Use of National Guard Has Been Successful--and Welcome

Key Democrats turn out to be grateful.

It is now indisputable that  President Trump’s use of the National Guard to reinforce local law enforcement and crime-ridden cities is successful and welcome when applied.

The rabidly partisan Democratic mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, had opposed the introduction of the National Guard but after the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department disclosed that violent crime had fallen by half during this period and even relatively minor offenses such as evasion fares on the subway system were practically eliminated.

The National Guard reinforcements were naturally not deployed in low crime areas like Georgetown, but in crime-ridden areas where over a thousand serious arrests were made and a large number of firearms seized and 50 homeless encampments were cleared.

Mayor Bowser commendably expressed her gratitude for the National Guard, whose arrival was greeted by the Senate Democrats’ principal hobnobber with criminals, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, with the customary incantation that Trump is a “dictator… pushing democracy to the brink,” (by drastically reducing crime).  As the Washington Examiner remarked, “There was a lot of more nonsense where that came from.”