Black Democrat Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced he was switching to the Republican Party. It is a bold move in a city like Dallas, and if nothing else, the Democrat party is pissed, so at least one good thing came out of it.
But I’m not sure how a party jump will accomplish anything unless the goal is to prove a Republican mayor can oversee a crime-riddled urban plantation like Dallas. Look!, It’s not just Democrats wrecking American cities.
Time will tell, but Eric Johnson has sounded all the proper alarms and is saying the right things.
“The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism,” Johnson wrote. “Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”
He added: “In other words, American cities need Republicans—and Republicans need American cities.”
Johnson’s announcement makes him the only Republican among the mayors of the 10 most populous cities in the US.
The ten most populous cities in the US account for the majority of poverty, crime, and illiteracy, and Mayor Johnson (snicker) was elected as a Democrat with 98% of the vote, according to CNN. Needless to say (this is where we repeat it anyway), the Texas Democrat Party is not amused.
“[T]he voters of Dallas deserved to know where he stood before he ran for reelection as Mayor,” the chair and vice-chair of the party said. “He wasn’t honest with his constituents, and knew he would lose to a Democrat if he flipped before the election.”
“This feeble excuse for democratic representation will fit right in with Republicans — and we are grateful that he can no longer tarnish the brand and values of the Texas Democratic Party,” they added.
The voters of Dallas deserve peace and prosperity, even if they can’t figure out how to vote for some of that.
Violent crime in Dallas is nearly double that of Texas and more than double the national median rate. Property crime is also roughly double that of the US average, with total crimes averaging 150 per square mile, 5.6 times greater than the US average. The poverty rate in Dallas is close to 18%. It’s everything you’d expect from systemic Democrat rule, but what can be done?
Mayor Johnson is saying the right things, but Dallas is a captured franchise of the Democrat political machine. Every office and every position of leadership is controlled by the (now) opposing party or its union representative. Nothing moves unless you move it yourself, which would begin with exercising whatever executive authority you have as Mayor to remove and replace people in key positions.
Can you? Wcritical you? And is there enough time to show progress before discovering how your party primaries you out when it is time for re-election? And remember that they will bring thugs to Dallas to make things look bad or worse. Antifa and BLM riots. General chaos and Mayhem.
The Left will set Dallas on fire to smoke you out of office, and being a black man will not protect you.
Having said all that, good on you for daring to stand up for the people of Dallas or at least saying things that need to be said. The Democrat party has destroyed America’s cities and stranded millions on their new urban plantation of crime, drug abuse, poverty, homelessness, and disease. But you have to do more than say you are a Republican.
We’ve got plenty of those already and they aren’t helping anyone but themselves.
