Before Biden made inflation one of the top issues that Americans are concerned about, Republicans were raising the alarm about the rise of crime. Democrats have been notoriously weak on crime for a long time now, but the Black Lives Matter movement ultimately forced them to establish themselves more aggressively as the party of defunding the police and degrading law and order under the guise of promoting racial equality. In 2020, we watched as Democrats made excuses for the George Floyd riots, and the liberal media went into overdrive to justify them, even declaring them “mostly peaceful” as businesses were burned and innocent people were killed.
One issue that is clearly related to both crime and inflation is skyrocketing shoplifting, which is happening in mostly Democrat-controlled cities where weak-on-crime policies have given criminals ownership of the streets. Various stores have closed down because they can’t control theft. Videos of shoplifters walking out of stores with expensive merchandise have gone viral on social media, as these criminals know that few if any consequences await them, even if they get caught. Earlier this year, a security guard at a Walgreens…
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