pjmedia.com By David Manney
A Parable of the Broken Streetlight
A main streetlight goes out in a neighborhood. As it always does, City Hall ignores the phone calls, despite the darkness inviting trouble, with cars being broken into, fights in the shadows, and parents afraid to let their kids walk home. At some point, a man steps in to pay for the repair of the streetlight that’s not his responsibility, because safety doesn’t wait for politics. The man is boisterous and has the couth of a frog, yet the block is safe again by the next night.
This is the situation President Donald Trump faces with Baltimore and Chicago, where local leaders downplay crime or refuse to take action. The president offers to send in the National Guard, acting not as a tyrant, but as the man fixing the streetlight before the neighborhood falls into chaos.
Baltimore: Trump Versus the Governor
Trump’s message to Baltimore was Trump being Trump: He was blunt, blasting Governor Wes Moore for letting crime run rampant, and warning that if Moore wouldn’t act, federal resources would…
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