Mamdani is poison for Dems, Trump proves right on violence and other commentary

“It is time for Democrats to move away from” past obsessions of ideological purity like “MeToo# allegations,” which have become “a disaster for the Democratic Party,” and elect Andrew Cuomo as a “step in the right direction,” argues Joe Klein at Sanity Clause.Cuomo “would be a mayor who concentrated on the ‘how’ of politics” and the “practical steps” needed to keep New York “afloat.” Zohran Mamdani is “political poison” with his support for “Hamas terrorists” and “socialist twaddle.” Moreover, “a Mamdani victory would become an open question, an open wound, for every last Democrat running for office nationally,” at a time when “Dems are weak enough as it stands.”“A new Bureau of Justice Statistics report” shows “Trump was right” last year “when he said, ‘Crime here is up and through the roof,’” reports John R.
Lott at RealClearPolitics.The media focused on the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, which reflects only offenses reported to DC by police departments.
But BJS’s National Crime Victimization Survey asks people if they were crime victims and whether or not they reported them; it shows violent crime surged 59%.The problem? There’s a “growing gap between reported crimes and actual victimization,” as victims don’t bother reporting crimes that won’t be prosecuted by progressive prosecutors — who also deliberately downgrade “violent” offenses.
“Until the justice system” restores “accurate reporting, Americans will continue to face rising violence that the FBI’s official statistics fail to capture.”“A spiritual hunger grips America” as “young people are drawing closer to a higher power,” observes Joel Kotkin at UnHerd.Even “decidedly secular Europe” is seeing a “revival” of interest in religion, including “a rapid rise in sales of the Bible.” Though “conventional wisdom” holds that religious people are “less curious, less ambitious, and l...