Letter from Washington

If you want to cut right to the heart of the distinction today between a liberal and a conservative, note the Washington reaction to the President’s recent New Orleans speech on crime. Washington libs see little more in the speech than a few secondhand law-and-order platitudes. Conservatives, on the other hand, see in it a diagnosis of compelling clarity, one that charts another powerful (revolutionary) redirection for the country.

For several decades, the U.S. has been lulled by a group of pseudo-intellectual elitists and “educationists” into believing that crime is caused by poverty, unemployment, and disadvantaged status, notwithstanding the fact that during the Great Depression, the FBI Uniform Crime Reports showed stable or reducing crime rates, and that during the Great Society—when poverty declined and federal expenditures on social/economic programs mushroomed —crime has shot up to what the President described as an “epidemic.”

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If you want to cut right to the heart of the distinction today between a liberal and a conservative, note the Washington reaction to the President’s recent New Orleans speech on crime. Washington libs see little more in the speech than a few secondhand law-and-order platitudes. Conservatives, on the other hand, see in it a diagnosis of compelling clarity, one that charts another powerful (revolutionary) redirection for the country.

For several decades, the U.S. has been lulled by a group of pseudo-intellectual elitists and “educationists” into believing that crime is caused by poverty, unemployment, and disadvantaged status, notwithstanding the fact that during the Great Depression, the FBI Uniform Crime Reports showed stable or reducing crime rates, and that during the Great Society—when poverty declined and federal expenditures on social/economic programs mushroomed —crime has shot up to what the President described as an “epidemic.”