George Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner won reelection on Tuesday.
His victory comes as the city is enduring a murder surge and headed for an all-time homicide record. This can be laid directly at Krasner’s feet, as he keeps releasing violent offenders only to have them re-offend. Yet despite bodies piling up in the streets of Philadelphia, the election was not even close. Krasner won in a landslide with 69.1% of the vote. Krasner’s victory begs the question: Do Philadelphians deserve to get what they voted for?
Soros-backed district attorneys have won elections in numerous cities throughout the country. Everywhere they win elections, a surge in crime follows. Yet these candidates keep winning.
“This is about a movement,” Krasner said of his victory and those of similarly minded DAs. “It is not about us as individuals.”
“In Philadelphia, this is a movement that has been led by Black and brown and broke people, and progressives,” Krasner said. “And if you’re Black or brown or broke, you better be progressive because there isn’t much of an alternative.”
Well, “dead” is an alternative. Hundreds of Philadelphians have suffered that fate because of Krasner.
Krasner’s statement reeks of the type of bigotry that is often embraced and celebrated by those on the left. It echoes Biden’s campaign statement that if a black voter does not support him, then he is not really black.
But why do black voters continue to support and vote for people whose policies bring nothing but crime and suffering to their communities? One reason is that many have accepted the Left’s excuse for this debacle — that the culprit is a systemically racist criminal justice system. Combine that with the media’s deliberately misleading coverage of police shootings — only covering those where blacks are shot, even though most of the people shot by police are white and the vast majority armed — and a mindset of perpetual victimization has been created. These politicians then exploit that to win elections.
The U.S. criminal justice system is not racist, but progressive prosecutors’ facilitation of crime in black neighborhoods could be considered racist.
Consider Philadelphia and Krasner. The city has endured a wave of murders over the past few years. It consistently ranks higher than the national average in violent crime. It has the highest violent crime rate of any American city with a population over 1 million. It has the highest murder rate per capita among the country’s 10 largest cities. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the victims are black.
Krasner has done them no favors by going easy on hardened black criminals, but he has proven adept in fooling enough of the people enough of the time.
Philadelphia has not had a Republican mayor since the Truman era. The blame lies squarely with the city’s elected Democratic leaders. As long as people keep reelecting them, the violence will continue.
