We’re not too enthusiastic about sending federal troops into cities like Chicago and Los Angeles to prevent crime – and neither are the courts. These are local problems.

Progressives are making the case that Trump is unfairly targeting cities in blue states, when some of the worst crime is in red-state cities like Memphis, Houston, and St. Louis. That’s a fair point. Trump is wrong to say there “aren’t too many” high-crime areas in red states.

There are.

Below are lists based on FBI statistics of the highest crime cities in the nation. Sure enough, many are in red states.

But what ALL of these cities, with a few exceptions, have in common is that they are populated by progressive Democratic voters and ruled by mostly left-wing Democratic mayors and city councils. It’s simply a fact: Murders, robberies, muggings, shootings, and gun violence are much more common in places where Democrats rule and allow thugs to prey on their own citizens.