The Morning Briefing: GOP’s Case for Making Midterms About Law and Order Just Got Stronger – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur will be tripping the light fantastic for a couple of days unless Arlene from HR gets involved.

Many thanks to my good friend Kevin Downey Jr. for pinch-hitting for me yesterday so that I could spend some quality time with family to celebrate my mom’s 88th birthday. A most wonderful time was had by all.

There are plenty of successes since President Trump returned to office last year that Republican candidates can campaign on in this important election year. I’ve been in favor of the GOP leaning into a strategy that focuses heavily on law and order. It’s pretty easy to link the Democrats to various and sundry criminal types. The open borders lunacy, for example, literally gets people killed, and the Dems are rather unapologetic about it.

Having a real president in office has seen a return of consequences for the bad guys. Law enforcement agencies were demonized and attacked all through the Biden years. The “Defund the Police” lefties had a lot of success, which led to predictably awful results. President Trump has empowered federal law enforcement, while also being an encouraging ally for law enforcement personnel at all levels.

It’s all working out well. This is from Sarah:

On Friday, the FBI released its “2025 Reported Crimes in the Nation” statistics, and it told a pretty interesting story, but the most important headline is this one: “Data reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program shows 2024 to 2025 marked the largest year-to-year decline in violent crime rates since FBI estimations began in 1936.”

The biggest decline in violent crimes in 90 years? That’s huge.