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Biden Won the War on Crime
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Biden Won the War on Crime

In 2020, Donald Trump unleashed a crime wave on America. Joe Biden beat it back.

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1. American Carnage?

Remember the bad old days when people lost their minds about the crime wave Joe Biden had unleashed on America with his woke whatever-whatever policies?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

There was so much of this.

Well I’ve got some great news for you: Joe Biden has won the war on crime.

Here’s a headline from the WSJ that Heather Mac Donald might want to see: Homicides Are Plummeting in American Cities.

And this isn’t a one-time drop. It’s an acceleration of a trend that began in 2023.

How many stories have the Washington Examiner and the WSJ op-ed page written about these facts?

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I’ll let you guess. But wait—there’s even more good news.

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