A revolt against Democrat misrule!
My comrade John Nichols says the cities are “the Democrat(ic) heartlands of the U.S.” As such, its mayors will “put guardrails on Trump.” To which we can only quote the Gipper: There You Go Again!
The poster boy for big city mismanagement is Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, D-Teachers Union. Crime in his city is up 36% year-to-date compared with the same period 2020. Employers like Boeing, Caterpillar, and Tyson Foods have fled. Johnson is trying to hike property taxes, personal property leases, levy a city “shopping bag tax,” and tax streaming services by an aggregate $234 million. Repaying the teachers union for its investment in his campaign, Johnson wants the district to take out a $300 million loan to fund teacher pay increases and pension contributions.
Johnson’s 14% approval rating is the lowest of a mayor in Chicago’s history. It’s even lower than President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s share of the votes in deep-blue Chicago. — Illinois Policy institute
The party of Woke is losing hearts & minds in Comrade John’s “Democratic heartlands,” judging by 2024 presidential election results. (“A mind is a terrible thing to lose.” — Dan Quayle) The Trump/Vance ticket recorded a net gain of 6,654 votes in Milwaukee when compared to 2020. The Republican ticket also improved in Kenosha, La Crosse, Racine, Janesville, Beloit, Sheboygan, and Oshkosh, as the chart below shows.
That’s according to election guru Larry Sabato at the Center for Politics for the University of Virginia.
Trouble, right here in River City
Sabato calculated the candidates’ net gains for each municipality in Wisconsin when compared to the 2020 presidential election. A net gain, for instance, does not mean that the Democrat(ic) or Republican ticket won that municipality. A net gain measures the increase in one ticket’s vote totals over the opponent’s vote totals compared to four years ago.
The Democrats’ erosion in the cities enabled Trump/Vance 2024 to pick up 87,442 votes over Trump/Pence 2020 here in Wisconsin. Harris/Walz 2024 also improved over Biden/Harris 2020 — by 37,363 votes. That 50,079-vote net gain for Trump enabled him to overcome his 20,682-vote deficit from four years ago, winning our state this time by 29,397 votes. (We were told there would be no math.)
The outlier (wouldn’t you know) was Dane County, where Harris/Walz netted 7,200 votes compared to the Democrat(ic) ticket’s advantage four years ago. Led, of course, by Madison’s 3,136. Surprised to see that Sun Prairie gave Harris/Walz the third-biggest net gain, 1,057 votes. Of the 20 municipalities that gave Democrats their biggest gains over 2020, 10 came out of Dane County. More troubling for Republicans, six more came out of the WOW counties; but Trump still led in those three counties by an aggregate of 22 points, down slightly for 23 percentage points in 2020.
Anyone think NY is well governed?
Not only in Wisconsin are metro areas turning against Democrats. The Donald and JD improved by 16 percentage points in New York City, 14 points in L.A., 12 in greater Boston, 11 in Chicago, and 9 in Detroit. The New York Times calculates that Trump/Vance improved by 8 percentage points in core urban areas nationwide.
There is something afoot in metropolitan America drawing voters toward Donald Trump. … Big cities have struggled visibly with basic governance issues over the past four years, including keeping schools open, fighting crime, reducing homelessness, and managing the arrival of international migrants. They are also run (mostly) as single-party Democratic jurisdictions. — Henry Grabar in Slate magazine
Blaska’s Bottom Line: goes to Slate magazine: “Voters are fed up with lousy metropolitan governance.”
10 responses to “Cities are turning politically purple”
How about some LOCAL support for common sense, independent folks who want to run for common council?
“Why is Madison WI the outlier?”
Because they’re cluelessly inept, nucking futs Lefty sheeple!
The Gotch
All this just means the gerrymandering is working. By the time tRump is finished you couldn’t elect a republican to run the RNC.
Just wait Madison. I got my property tax bill. It went up $400 this year to $5400 on an 1100 sq.ft. house now assessed at $325K. That is with only one tax referendum from MMSD that will last until 2042( may I last so long). I’m waiting for next year when we get three more referendums added on. My answer to anyone that complains is “ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES”.
Many think the recent referendum effects will be on this tax bill. They will think, “This isn’t as bad as I thought”. What is going to hit them harder than “Andre The Giant” is the tax bill they will get next December. This will be after the Spring elections, too late to dump Satya. Sun Prairie upped theirs 7.7% on this tax bill. Their City staff is bloated. WTF does a “Sustainability coordinator really do? If you thought 2020-24 was rough, wait till 2025-26 slams people to the mat. Whilst WWF is fake, The economic punch people will experience will be epic.
So true Bob. The future for Madison taxpayers is grim. Here in Fitchburg we managed to vote down our own city referendum by about 1,000 votes, despite growing 737 votes more blue according to the chart in Dave’s post above. My own net property tax bill increased modestly, mostly because the lottery credit decreased (are people actually gambling less?). I’m not looking forward to future property tax bills for 2025-2028 when the MMSD referendum impacts kick in. The Andre the Giant reference is certainly appropriate.
We’re now into the five (5) figures; The Gotch believes we’re headed toward a CA Prop 13 type of wake up call for 77 Square Miles Surrounded By A Sea Of Reality despicable Lefty redistributionists who pander to the gimmee gimmee more More MORE high quality/quantity free $#!t demographic.
One would think they’d prefer that to a Maximilien Robespierre…um…ending.
The Gotch
I wonder where we would be now if Mayor Dave had gotten his trolley and Dane county had gotten their light rail?
“I wonder where we would be now if Mayor Dave had gotten his trolley and Dane county had gotten their light rail?”
Where indeed!
Or the moronic Inclusionary Zoning or former Alder/ACORN operative/despicable Lefty extraordinaire Austin King’s Mandatory Sick Leave.
The Gotch
I wonder what will happen when/if the “free money” from the Feds drys up under DOGE. Isthmus had an article this week:
https://isthmus.com/news/news/are-infrastructure-funds-for-madison-safe-under-Trump/
No mention of DOGE, no mention of our $36 trillion debt, just Pocan disparaging Trump.
Anyway if Musk and Ramaswamy get to do what they want to do you can bet your ass funds for unproven projects like BRT will be gone. And then what? Will Satya come back with her hat in her hands?
I hope Madisonians have a chance to experience real world pain from the referendums passing before that happens.