Members of the National Guard arrive at the D.C. Armory in Washington on August 12, 2025. Abaca Press Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA

When President Donald Trump invoked the District of Columbia Home Rule Act on Monday to take control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard in the capital, it wasn’t just about crime.

He was setting a political trap that exposed the left’s failure to take law and order seriously.

Democrats are still reeling from their lackluster response to the looting and riots that followed George Floyd’s death in 2020. They championed disastrous bail reform measures that send violent repeat criminals back onto the streets. They flirted with “defunding the police” - rhetoric now haunting far-left figures like Zohran Mamdani, their nomin

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