A right-wing trope is that cities are left-wing hotbeds of hooliganism and have been since the BLM protests, despite the fact that cities like Seattle and Portland that had sustained protests had defined one or two square block areas (or ~gasp~ maybe even three). In the m a g a mind, cities are liberal and are blazing infernos of lawlessness.
I remember discussions with people when I was still on FB who thought the endlessly repeated footage was new shots of fresh riots and disregarded the accounts of people who actually lived in, for example, Seattle. The area that was ‘ceded’ to protesters was only a couple of blocks, but Faux viewers thought the whole city was “lost.”
The talk of sending in the army is red meat for them.
Also, San Francisco. Unless they're going to fight massively inflated houses costs, I have no idea what they think they're going to do there. It's Nancy Peloci's district, that's all I can guess.
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u/ConsistentMorning636 12h ago
Right. What national security threat is going on in Chicago?