Krasner then likened Republican criticisms of his city’s lawlessness to “the Southern strategy,” a Republican effort to leverage segregation in the Southern United States to win votes among white people.

This kind of talk has become the norm among Democrats today and has led not to a happier America but instead to worse relations among races, with people routinely throwing around the ugly moniker “racist” at anyone who has a different opinion or who dares to suggest that crime is bad.