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But here's the odd thing. Almost all these red state governors have cities within their states that have higher crime rates than DC.
Shouldn't they be sending the National Guard to their much more crime ridden cities? No, they are just currying favor with Trump and the MAGA base. Sickening hypocrisy, which seems to be all we get from the GOP these days.
Snippets from NPR's Up First podcast:
MARTÍNEZ: So as Michel just mentioned, the deployments are from states with Republican governors. I mean, that can't be a coincidence, is it?
MEG ANDERSON, BYLINE: Yeah, yeah, it's not. So far, the states are West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio and, as of yesterday, Tennessee. And, you know, in their statements, they echoed what Trump has said about crime in D.C. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster said the troops were there to, quote, "support President Trump in his mission to restore law and order." And this really is falling mostly on partisan lines.
MARTÍNEZ: OK. Now, the thing I think a lot of people find puzzling is that many of these states are sending troops to D.C. have cities with crime rates that are higher than the Capitol. Don't they need them?
ANDERSON: Yeah. I mean, so that's true. I looked at last year's murder rates, and in Jackson, Mississippi, the murder rate was more than four times the rate in D.C. In Memphis, it was nearly triple. In New Orleans, it was nearly double. I spoke about this with Insha Rahman. She's with the advocacy group the Vera Institute of Justice. They work to end mass incarceration.
INSHA RAHMAN: Trump enlisting Republican governors to send National Guard troops signals one thing very clearly - that this is about a political power grab and political theater, not about making cities safer.
Ya think?
But it's also about distracting from the fact that Trump is a pedo.
