Democrats around the country are folding like cheap suits when it comes to defunding the police as mayors across the country move to restore funding for police departments or like in Chicago raising their budgets. As usual an increase in crime has the Democrats running for cover as if the protests of last summer after the murder of George Floyd never occurred.

This ridiculous move by the Democrats is exactly why we are in the position we are in currently. The protests in 2020 are directly linked to public policy decisions from 5, 10, and even 20  years ago. You cannot starve communities and expect to not experience some repercussions form those decisions. As the Democrats like Rahm Emanuel have closed schools and sucked social services from these communities they are in fact continuing a long tradition of segregation and deprivation of these communities that spilled out in to the streets last summer.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot campaigned as a new type of progressive Democrat. Unfortunately her governing style has not reflected the values of a progressive democrat. In fact, unlike many Democratic mayors she never embraced the defund movement and moved instead to increase police budgets despite what occurred in Chicago last summer. This is exhibit number one in the case against Mayor Lightfoot in her fraud trial when she seeks re-election in winter 2023.nWe can only hope that each of the Democrats that folded find the same pain at the voting booth that it seems Mayor Lightfoot may very well experience.

Also on the show today:

Mayor Lightfoot's Private investigation of Anjanette Young case
Dr. Jen Ludwig's OpEd on gun violence in Chicago