kontextmaschine:

Trump appealing to a homeless crackdown

1) Shows his mind is still very firmly in the 70s-80s-90s Manhattan arc

2) Is not bad wedging in the “blue” cities where there’s definite tension in the limousine liberal/minority/young upstart D coalitions, over housing, over culture, over policing.

In Portland there’s a brewing conflict over “more traffic cops to realize our Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan” (coalition being bicyclist hipsters and outer-city dwellers with few options) and “no, we want to minimize police contact” (leftists and the woke)

3) illustrates that police unions are an alternate chain of command that the federal government can articulate with when blue-appointed formal leadership demurs