Once, cities were fun.
I used to love walking around the District of Columbia, visiting sites such as the National Archives Building and the Lincoln Memorial, paeans in stone to our greatness.
Every city had its unique charm: New York’s Rockefeller Center, Seattle’s Pike Place Market and Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.
Now it takes a hardy soul to visit America’s once proud cities without an armed escort.
Songs were written about our cities in their heyday: “New York, New York – It’s a Wonderful Town,” “Chicago, Chicago!” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” Today, you could leave your wallet and car there too.
Our cities have become the face of the Democratic Party, akin to the creature in “Alien” on a bad hair day.
[…]How did big cities become liberal welfare plantations?
Urban machines are a Democratic invention started by Boss Tweed. As more productive urbanites left for red states, those remaining were increasingly impoverished and easily manipulated.
[…]Mr. Trump spent most of his career doing business in America’s biggest and busiest city. (Trump Tower is not located in Tupelo, Mississippi.) If anyone is up to the task of bringing sanity to urban America, it’s the 47th president of the United States.
— Don Feder, Aug. 19 WorldNetDaily column