The childish, petty behavior displayed by Democrats during President Donald Trump's speech to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night is still being talked about. Their heckling of Trump, their ridiculous ping-pong paddle signs and whiteboards, and refusing to stand for a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor is not helping them. It doesn't take much to conclude that, at least on the national level, whether they realize it or not, Democrats seem to be intent on committing political suicide. But what about how they are faring on the local level? Longtime Democrat-run cities that have declared themselves sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants and the effects from that have been in the news, but there are others they are in the process of destroying as well.
My hometown, Chicago, a Democrat run city, is moving to ban fur sales. In 2024 Chicago had a $982M budget deficit, spent $170M on illegal migrants as a "Sanctuary City", and had 573 murders. Democrats are not serious people. pic.twitter.com/NcoljJYv82
— Chicago Cop (@chicago_co37632) March 6, 2025
A prime example of their handiwork is on full display in St. Louis. Also on Tuesday, St. Louis held a mayoral primary race. The race was between four candidates: incumbent Mayor Tishaura Jones, Alderwoman Cara Spencer, for whom this is a second run for mayor, Recorder of Deeds Michael Butler, and the only Republican running, retired businessman Andrew Jones. Before we go any further, let's look at a bit of history. St. Louis has not had a Republican mayor since 1949. That should tell you how residents in the Gateway City tend to vote. In 2020, St. Louisans voted on Proposition D, which instituted approval voting. Is that ranked choice voting? Not exactly; ranked choice voting allows voters to rank candidates by preference, whereas, with approval voting, voters merely check the candidates they approve of with no preference. Not that Republicans were doing well in St. Louis to begin with, but the theory was, was that instituting approval voting all but ensured no GOP candidates even got on the general election ballot. How convenient.
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The turnout for primary elections usually is not as good as the general election, but in Tuesday's primary, it was abysmal, with just 17.8 percent voter turnout. While the city (which is a separate entity from surrounding St. Louis County) has a population of roughly 281,000, according to this Board of Elections report, only 34,913 people out of 196,340 registered voters cast votes in Tuesday's election. In the end, Spencer and Jones came out on top and will advance to the general election in April. The same two Democrats once again.
Well stated.
— ThePeoplesSpeaker™️🇺🇸 (@SpeakerTimJones) March 6, 2025
80+ years of Democrat (& now far leftist) control of the City of St. Louis & #moleg Dems’ solution to all the horrors that their policies have created is simply to keep the insanity intact. https://t.co/enlLvK4OGW
The stranglehold Democrats have on St. Louis is personal to me. I don't live in St. Louis proper, I live in the county, but because from county to city is a short drive for most in the metropolitan region, we pay attention to what goes on there. And most of what has gone on is not good. The population of the city has shrunk immensely. Right after World War II in the 1950s, the city was a vibrant place of around 856,000 people. Downtown was a buzzing area of business and shopping. But like a lot of other cities at that time, people started moving to the suburbs. In 1981, a General Motors plant that assembled Corvettes right in the heart of the city closed. Since then, more businesses have left downtown, and there has been a steady stream of rising crime. Many people will not go into the city unless they are attending Cardinals, Blues, or City SC soccer games. Add to that deteriorating neighborhoods and infrastructure, and in 2007, for a short time, St. Louis Public Schools lost their accreditation. Yet St. Louis continued to elect Democrats.
On the first weekend of 2025, St. Louis was hit with a massive snowstorm — eight-and-a-half inches — which is a lot by St. Louis standards, accompanied by sleet and freezing rain. While it is important to clear interstates and main roads first, many city neighborhood streets never saw a snowplow, and streets were covered with ice for weeks. Mayor Tishaura Jones had one job: keep the trains running on time, or in this case, get the ice off the streets. That didn't happen.
As I watched the primary election results roll in Tuesday night while watching Trump's speech, I started to wonder: What sort of catastrophic event, God forbid, is going to have to happen for St. Louis to give Democrats the boot? They seem to be getting tired of Democrats in Chicago — Mayor Brandon Johnson currently has a 6.6 percent approval rating. For a time, it seemed that sliding around on the ice, risking damaged cars and bodily injury might be something that would make city residents take a second look at Andrew Jones, in addition to all the other issues plaguing the city. But in St. Louis, at least for yet another four years, Democrats and the definition of insanity will once again reign supreme.
St Louis has been run by democrats for 76 years. Completely moronic Democrats. They push a name of a party because that's what they're told to do not because that person's qualified. Move over Baltimore and Detroit St Louis is on its way to the bottom. Thank the media https://t.co/zAER7F37ac
— Accountability Warrior 💪💥💪 (@BeAccountable4u) March 5, 2025
