"The three most recently departed mayors have left in disgrace. One was convicted of fraud that involved stealing gift cards from needy families, and another is under active investigation for embezzling government funds."
"A local Baltimore Fox affiliate attempted to shine a light... using an “unfiltered” look at the city with recently ousted Mayor Catherine Pugh. “Whoa, you can smell the rats,” Pugh said during the program as a camera crew followed her around the streets of the decaying city."
"Blue light districts” literally mark the neighborhoods where crime and violence are known to be the highest. Many of the tell-tale flashing blue lights appear just steps from Baltimore’s famed downtown Inner Harbor."
"Nearly everyone I knew while living in Baltimore was personally touched by crime and violence at one point or another. Many friends were mugged, attacked, and even shot in crimes the police never solved."
"[The rats] are bold, and the size of house cats; they do not live in the shadows of night in the subway tracks like they do in NYC. They wander the trash-laden streets at all hours, posing a risk of animal attack and disease spread at an alarming rate."
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Why do most DC thinktanks still exist when they've had zero policy successes for the past 8 years, with the obvious exception of Brookings engineering Russiagate?
As I've written previously, the policy successes of the DC right thinktanks were welfare reform (Heritage), the Iraq surge (AEI), and judicial shift toward liberty (Cato, the most successful). What have they done in the past ten years?
I can list the accomplishments from @ManhattanInst @FamStudies @NCLAlegal @TheFIREorg off the top of my head ... but their budgets are much smaller.
First, not a single candidate Trump endorsed who lost backed his fictional "no exceptions even in the case of rape incest or life of the mother". Literally zero Republican candidates think abortion should be banned when a mother's life is at risk.
Second, Trump claims the pro-life position moved large numbers of voters against Republicans. Yet the most pro-life R incumbent candidates all won! DeSantis, Kemp, Abbott, DeWine, go down the list. And all the Senate candidates who won were super pro-life too. Oops!