President Donald Trump’s long-overdue decision to use federal resources to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., will come at a steep cost: hundreds — possibly thousands — of teenage offenders now on track for lives in and out of prison.

This outcome was entirely predictable. Recent history offers examples of exactly where lax policies lead. Democrats and their activist allies pushed them on American cities anyway. They own the consequences.

It took the president to push past the crushing guilt the city’s activists feel for their own happy lives and finally say hard times come again no more .

To understand the failed experiment now ending in Washington, look back just six years. In 2019, the city was thriving. The dark days of the 1980s and ’90s were fading. Streets that were no-

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