If it's really about crime rather than intimidating political enemies & throwing red meat to the rubes...

The Washington Examiner recently ran a story titled "Newsom compares California’s homicide rate to red states. Does he have a point?"; Now, I know, Trump-cult kids --you guys knee-jerk categorize anyone who questions Dear Leader -even if obliquely- as suffering from TDS, Trump haters, Kool-Aid drinkers, whatever you have to tell yourselves to avoid reality, keep the Orange Dipsh-t on his pedestal... Just a li'l background on The Washington Examiner though: it's a right-leaning publication that gets a MOSTLY FACTUAL rating and would likely rate higher sans dings for loaded phrasing, Op-Ed pieces lacking crucial context. Sooooo... yeah, while it's up to you to make up your minds about whether or not you're being played for chumps, there's no making a solid judgement if all you're basing it on is "because I said so" -especially if it's coming from a proven liar. Oh, and while we're on the subject, it seems relevant to remind the last time a military superpower's rabble decided one person's "because I said so" scapegoating met the good- enough-for-me threshold, we got jackboots demanding papers, warrant- less arrests, a smoking plateful of extermination camps and WWII.