@rbreich I am sure you have read it. But as Californians and fellow UC faculty, I know we have both seen how abandoned many places in our own state really are. I have been in tranq neighborhoods in Fresno, and live in a poor desert community. I am sorry to say, in blue state America this is absolutely on the watch of neoliberal Democrats. No shade on you Robert, you have been on the right side of history, even when you were Secretary of Labor for one of these neolibs. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/dc-crime-statistics-trump-police-takeover/683838/

@rbreich isn't he the whole crime wave, gutted him of power and the crimes gone for good

@rbreich I think Trump is trying to normalize the use of military so American people see the final act as just another Trump tantrum