We are all familiar with that old saw about how the party in the White House always loses in the midterm elections. But if there was ever a prime time for that to be flipped on its head, this year would be that time, and President Donald Trump would be the man to do it. For Democrats to achieve that, they are going to have to position themselves very differently on some key issues Americans care about. One of those things is crime. Can they do that? Do they even want to do that? One left-leaning group says they'd better start thinking about it.
Democrats want crime in their cities pic.twitter.com/fs5AcjETbn
— joe t (@jtinaglia) January 27, 2026
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a left-leaning think tank. On Thursday, they released a plan that may behoove Democrats to give some consideration to. A slide presentation puts things pretty bluntly, saying, “Voters barely believe Democrats even care about fighting crime or respect police." And the glaringly obvious question would be, why would they? Violence against ICE agents, Border Patrol, and other law enforcement officials has dominated the news cycle for weeks, with Democrat politicians giving a wink and a nod to the violence.
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CAP's plan calls for hiring more detectives and police officers, thereby holding lawbreakers accountable and "delivering swift and certain consequences." Also, a focus on crime "hotspots," crime prevention strategies, and stopping violent criminal organizations, such as illegal trafficking of drugs, guns, and people. Neera Tanden, who served as Joe Biden's domestic policy council director, said of the plan, “It’s important for Democrats to demonstrate that they understand that crime is an issue and that they have solutions around it.” She added that Democrats should be “on their front foot” talking about crime.
The topic also came up last summer at the Democratic National Committee meeting, where it was urged that the party should communicate better that they were “serious about safety." But instead of more cops on the street or more funding, Democrats reverted to the old "root causes" approach, and advocated things like “better, more accountable policing."
It’s been one week and Democrats are already terrorizing and vandalizing Virginia.
— Douglass Mackey (@douglassmackey) January 20, 2026
Virginia is going to be swirling down the drain of crime, fraud, and illegal aliens in no time.
Watch what happens in Virginia.
In August of 2025, an AP-NORC poll showed that after President Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., 53 percent of Americans approved of how he was handling crime. A recent YouGov poll showed that 57 percent of Americans approve of what ICE is doing, as Democrats continue to compare them to Nazis and the Gestapo.
A few Democrats have campaigned on being tough on crime. In 2024, Mayor Daniel Lurie won in San Francisco by promising to beef up the police force to make the city safer. In 2022, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro also campaigned on hiring more cops, and last spring in New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham deployed the state National Guard troops to Albuquerque to fight crime.
There's just one problem. Who will believe them? On a national scale, how would this look like anything other than an election-year ploy? This is the same party that seems hell-bent on doing anything to keep violent criminals in the country, on the off chance they will vote for Democrats. Their rallying cry in 2020 of "defund the police" is rapidly morphing into "defund ICE." How did that work out for them? The combination of defending criminals and the actual defunding of police in several cities, including Minneapolis, and the ensuing results, is the reason this will be a hard sell for Democrats.
Every state ran by Democrats has widespread fraud because they’re both soft-on-crime and complicit with it.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 24, 2026
President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.
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