Since when did protecting the most at-risk residents of America’s major inner cities against violent, rampant and often indiscriminate crime become a bad thing?

That question requires at least two answers.

The first answer: For the last six decades or more. As it became evident that Democratic, liberal or far-left policies were having — or, more often, creating — a negative impact on the welfare of many those at-risk citizens of our inner cities, those Americans, and their ever mounting quality-of-life emergencies spawned by those failed policies, were swept under multiple bureaucratic rugs, where they have remained to this day.

The second answer is the most relevant and sadly most destructive at the moment: “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

For months now, President Trump, various Republican politicians and conservative pundits have been correctly stressing that the Democratic leadership and its messaging have been on the wrong end of an 80-20 equation — meaning Republicans have 80 percent of the American people are generally on their side when it comes to the “bread and butter” issues of most concern.

Myself and many others believe that if an........

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