Far-left policies are backfiring.
Residents in blue “utopias” are finally getting fed up.
And a Democrat governor was shown the door when she tried to crash one event.
Democrats and their media allies have spent the past many years demonizing police officers and valorizing career criminals.
During the George Floyd riots of 2020, the left-wing outrage mob pushed the “defund the police” movement until they realized it was wildly unpopular and cost them a lot of seats in Congress.
After that, Joe Biden tried to reframe Democrats as the party of law and order, but nobody bought it.
Far-left district attorneys have been implementing pro-crime policies that have put both police officers and civilians in more danger.
Pro-crime policy consequences
In New York, police officer Jonathan Diller was tragically killed during a traffic stop by a career criminal with 21 prior arrests, and Governor Kathy Hochul, who has been a proponent of pro-crime policies, tried to speak at his wake.
However, Hochul’s request was rejected.
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who challenged Hochul for the governor’s seat, commented, “How completely out of touch and disrespectful – it’s about them when you make that kind of request. It really should be about the family. . .They can have speak whoever they want to have speak. And if you aren’t invited to provide remarks, then you don’t try to push your way into it.”
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade explained, “I’m told the family members let [Hochul] have it when she got there saying, quote, ‘his blood is on your hands’ — When Hochul got outside, that’s when another family member confronted her, telling … the governor laws need to change because that’s the reason why Officer Diller is dead tonight.”
The fact that the man who killed Officer Diller had an extensive rap sheet but was still free speaks volumes about the revolving door policies of blue strongholds like New York.
Unserious about law and order
In the past, Hochul has paid lip service to getting tougher on crime, particularly when Zeldin was running competitively against her in a state where Democrats have a massive voter registration advantage over Republicans.
Hochul recently deployed the National Guard in an attempt to thwart rampant subway crime, but the same hyper-liberal ethos of the Democrat Party remains.
Kilmeade added, “I have now learned tonight from a source that Kathy Hochul, the governor, asked to speak at tomorrow’s funeral at St. Rose [of Lima Roman Catholic Church]. So did, hold on to something tight: A.G. Letitia James. . .Both were rejected by the family.”
Democrats are interested in political stunts to appear tough on crime, but their underlying ideology remains the same.
Stay tuned to Blue State Blues for any updates to this ongoing story.
