Donald Trump is a progressive politician’s finest good friend. Particularly throughout election season.
Mayor Michelle Wu is driving the anti-Trump practice for all it’s value, doubling down on her pro-sanctuary metropolis stance regardless of a federal order to dismantle its protections for unlawful immigrants.
She went full photograph op this week, surrounded by an enormous crowd of group leaders, residents, and elected officers to handle a letter from U.S. Legal professional Common Pam Bondi.
“Cease attacking our cities to cover your administration’s failures. Not like the Trump administration, Boston follows the regulation, and Boston is not going to again down from who we’re or what we stand for. We is not going to again away from our group that has made us the most secure metropolis within the nation,” Wu mentioned.
Boston does comply with the regulation, simply not the regulation in opposition to coming into the U.S. illegally. That’s within the “look the opposite manner” pile. As for Boston being the most secure metropolis within the nation, the group to thank is the Boston Police Division and its officers, in addition to ERO Boston, which has arrested unlawful immigrant fentanyl traffickers and youngster rapists, amongst different offenders.
That’s how you retain a metropolis secure.
However Wu isn’t backing down on the Boston Belief Act, which limits native cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Not when she’s up for reelection.
So Wu swung for the fences, saying that the Trump administration’s “false and steady” assaults on Boston and different cities, together with efforts to slash federal funding and deploy “army personnel” to metropolis streets, had been “unprecedented” and illegal.
“Boston won’t ever again down from being a beacon of freedom and a house for everybody.”
Count on that sound chew to pop up on pro-Wu advertisements.
However our mayor isn’t alone in utilizing the Trump Administration for marketing campaign gas. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seen by many as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, has been mining Trump’s strikes for months.
Her Preventing Oligarchy tour with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was akin to a pre-campaign multi-state swing. AOC’s additionally blasted Medicaid cuts, Trump’s calling the Nationwide Guard to D.C., and his order to assault Iran. That final one, she concluded, ought to immediate his ouster.
“The President’s disastrous determination to bomb Iran with out authorization is a grave violation of the Structure and Congressional Warfare Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a conflict which will ensnare us for generations. It’s completely and clearly grounds for impeachment,” AOC posted on X in June.
One factor she’s not so large on: issues in her personal district.
Because the New York Submit reported, residents of her congressional district slammed AOC for ignoring a crime-plagued strip in Queens, notorious for rampant prostitution and unlawful avenue distributors — fueled partially by gangs that obtained a foothold within the space as a result of metropolis’s migrant disaster.
“We want our congresswoman’s assist to cease crime, medicine, gangs, intercourse trafficking. I’d love for her to handle these points,” mentioned Rosa Sanchez, head of the Restore Roosevelt Avenue Coalition.
And Boston residents would like to understand how a lot the White Stadium overhaul will lastly price earlier than the election, and the way a intercourse offender was employed by town.
However like different progressive pols across the nation, Wu has discovered Trump to be the marketing campaign present that retains giving.
