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I went for a belated NYC run this morning, and am sorry to report that I saw very few black-clad anarchists. Also, the city is not yet in flames 1/
The political question of the day is whether Trump can win politically by hammering on a nonexistent crisis of order in America& #39;s cities. You would think not, but I& #39;m not 100% confident 2/
As Pew had documented, we went through a quarter-century of rapidly falling crime — and all the way through, people declared that crime was rising 3/
One reason is that people live in bubbles. After 2016 there was endless reporting on how urban types don& #39;t understand the lives of guys in diners. But there& #39;s equal if not greater absence of comprehension going the other way. 4/
I haven& #39;t seen systematic polling about how rural and even some suburban Americans view life in big metropolitan areas. But my guess is that you& #39;d find some remarkable misconceptions 5/
My favorite letter of all time was from a supporter of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who insisted that us urban Northeasterners just didn& #39;t get what life was like for people like him. "How would you feel if New York was full of immigrants?" 6/
As I mentioned in yesterday& #39;s newsletter, even some well-educated people I know believe that the brief episode of looting in the early stages of the NYC BLM protests left much of Manhattan a wreck; how many people think Portland 2020 is Newark 1967? 7/
Anyway, important to realize that claims of urban anarchy are almost entirely fantasy. 8/
