Democrats in Washington, D.C., are furious — not because violent crime was spiraling out of control, but because President Donald Trump did something to stop it.
A new Washington Post-Schar School poll found that roughly 8 in 10 D.C. residents oppose Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. The poll was conducted between Aug. 14 and Aug. 17 and surveyed 604 D.C. residents with a +/- 4.1 percentage point margin of error.
This outrage was unsurprising, given that the propaganda press peddled the same narrative in recent days. A quartet of so-called journalists at CNN reported on Aug. 14 that a crowd in D.C. was “outraged by federal law enforcement presence.”
One local the outlet interviewed, Mara Lasko, called the presence of National Guard troops “crazy,” before adding that it makes people angry. “And I don’t think they’re actually doing anything productive to make our city a safer place,” Lasko added.
PBS News’ Geoff Bennett reported on how residents are “adapting to life under federal control” as if soldiers were staging a military coup rather than standing guard against thugs.
One protester PBS News interviewed said Trump was “trying to make it less and less safe and make you more and more scared” and that “most people do not want this.”
The New York Times’ Alyce McFadden acknowledged in her recent piece on the protests, however, that the district residents are “overwhelmingly liberal.”
And that’s the point. D.C. is overwhelmingly liberal, which is why these polls and puff pieces don’t actually mean much. Of course statistics showing roughly 8 in 10 D.C. residents oppose the National Guard would sound more compelling if more than 70 percent of respondents weren’t Democrats — whose reflex answer to anything involving Trump is always “wrong.” But crime data just released undercuts the left-wing outrage: For the first time in years, D.C. just went seven straight days without a single homicide.
The city also saw an 83 percent decrease in carjackings, a 46 percent decrease in robberies, a 21 percent decrease in car thefts, and a 22 percent decrease in crime overall, according to Fox45.
But surely that can’t be true! After all, 65 percent of poll respondents confidently declared that the deployment will not reduce violent crime in the city.
And yet it did. Crime fell, homicides vanished for a week, and D.C.’s streets are safer than they’ve been in years. Which means the endless outrage from Democrats, the media, and their polling data isn’t just wrong — it’s ridiculous. They worked themselves into a frenzy over a policy that, thus far, has been successful.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2