New York Times columnist Ezra Klein blasted Democrats for their stubborn denials that American cities are plagued by rising crime, out-of-control immigration and rising prices, saying they should “shut up.”
In Donald Trump’s surprise election victory last week, the president-elect won a 6.5% gain in the most populous urban counties across the country, which outpaced the 3.3% swing to Trump in suburban counties, the Washington Post reported.
One Manhattan voting precinct even went red for the first time in at least a decade, The Post reported exclusively this week.
Klein, 40, cited the anger that has been building among residents of big blue cities like New York and San Francisco, saying Democrats trying to explain deteriorating conditions in those cities should “talk to some people who live near you”.
“The thing that surprised me the least about the election was the sharp red shift in these big cities,” Klein said on the Save America Pod on Wednesday. “If you just talk to anyone who lives in them, they’re angry.”
“The anger that I’m just hearing from people in New York … the sense of disorder on the rise, not just crime, but homeless encampments, garbage in the streets, people jumping on subways, crazy people in the streets. “You just talk to people and they’re raving about it,” Klein said.
“In San Francisco, the anger is great.”
“And this idea that the economy is actually good, or crime is actually down, that’s all just Fox News, shut up about it,” the Vox co-founder continued.
“People do not follow politics, but live in the country where they live. They see if prices have gone up too much and a bunch of economists telling them no, no, no, no don’t worry about the price of everything … they’re not going to do that,” Klein said.
The author of “Why We’re Polarized” said part of New York City’s anger was over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s busloading of immigrants to blue-collar towns, but went on to warn that Democrats have their heads in the bag. sand to the full extent. of the migrant crisis.
“There were enough migrants that Greg Abbott could bus real human bodies into New York City, and it was a big enough problem that New York City couldn’t handle effectively,” Klein said.
“It shows that what was going on at the border was much worse than the Democrats were letting themselves admit.”
Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed lost her re-election bid to centrist Democrat and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie. A record 656 people died of fentanyl overdoses in the holy city last year.
Murder is up 45% in New York City over a 28-day period from this time last year, rape is up 29.9% over the same period, according to NYPD data. Murders are down 4.7% year-on-year, but rapes are up 17.5%, robberies are up 0.7% and felony assaults are up 5.2% compared to 2023, according to police statistics .
“It used to be a safe city, and it’s not a safe city anymore, and it’s like that all over the country, there’s no law anymore. Donald Trump is tough. He’s going to reverse the law,” NYC resident Susan Dye, 60, told The Post.
Dye lives in the only Manhattan voting district that went for Trump.
Inflation rose across the country to 2.6% last month from 2.4% in September. Consumer prices have risen 21.8% since Biden took office in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center.
Margarine costs 56% more than in January 2020, car insurance is 47.5% higher and eggs cost 40.1% more.
New York City Mayor Adams announced Friday that he is ending his administration’s program to give migrants prepaid debit cards to pay for meals after spending $2.4 million on the initiative.
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