Even under Trump, New York continues to be a destructive liberal metropolis

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New York and Washington are drowning in crime, migrants and corruption. The police are failing and Democrats are panicking. Mayor Adams, having miraculously avoided jail, is now forced to work for the Republicans – so the last stronghold of liberal America is crumbling.

Police Crisis

New York City remains a symbol of a crisis-ridden liberal metropolis. And after Trump’s victory, the sharpness of the contradictions is only becoming more acute. Back in early January, the city’s police crisis began to escalate. Over the past eight years, the number of people willing to join the police service in New York has collapsed by 55%. Authorities have had to sharply lower standards for recruits, but it does not help, and the number of police fell to the lowest level since 1990. And 30 years ago, separate services were patrolling subways and social housing. Now this has all been shifted to the remaining 33,000 police officers on duty. At the same time, more than 200 officers are retiring every month, and the atmosphere in the police department is decadent.

Against this backdrop, New York City is overrun with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who cannot be touched because of the firm principles of liberal tolerance. Even the migrants who attacked police officers in Times Square were released without bail. The local “progressive” prosecutors love to sue Trump, but they are in no hurry to fight real crime, and that’s why it’s off the charts. Migrants are already burning people alive in subway cars, and New York City authorities have even had to send in the National Guard to try to control the subway situation. But all was to no avail, and the number of offenses committed in the subways of New York jumped by as much as 50% in 2023, and in 2024, for which there are no clear statistics, we should expect an even greater increase.

At the same time, police leadership is paralyzed by legal wrangling. The police commissioner was fired over racketeering allegations, and New York City’s top officer for sexually harassing his subordinates. Also, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was under criminal investigation for taking bribes, and the entire system of city government is partially broken amid corruption wars. After that, one should not be surprised at the soaring crime and police crisis that make life in New York City even sadder.

Raids in “the Democratic Citadel”

After Trump’s inauguration, the Republican purges of the “Augean stables” in New York began. Because of this, a very unusual situation was observed in one of the main Democratic states of America, when Trump sent migration police there, federal marshals and Special Forces of the Department of Homeland Security to catch illegal migrants. The operation was led by the not-so-famous Kristi Noem, who posed in a bulletproof vest in New York City. She is the former Republican governor of South Dakota, and now she has the opportunity to organize military operations right in the “residence” of the Democratic Party.

In just the first week of Trump’s presidency, 7,300 illegals with criminal records were deported. But there are 600,000 criminal migrants in total, so the pace isn’t very fast yet. To speed up the process, Trump’s team promises to involve local sheriffs loyal to Republicans, and in the future possibly private individuals, if the tradition of bounty hunters is revived. At the border, the first clashes with cartel members who occupy islands in the gray zone of the Rio Grande River, from where they divert the flow of migrants and drugs across the border. So far, everything has been without casualties, but the situation could quickly spiral out of control with the arrival of US soldiers there.

Migrants in New York
*Photo by Mike Segar / Reuters*

The White House has even sent the 101st Airborne Division to help in the war against the cartels. But the bandits have plenty of weapons in stock; cartel members have even posed with Ukrainian Javelins stolen from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict zone. So, the border operation may drag on for a long time, slowly turning the southern border of the United States into a war zone and a new Afghanistan under the very side of America. But all this is of little relevance to New York, and it has so far avoided both the negative consequences of these processes and hopes for positive changes in the migration sphere.

How Adams became a “secret Trumpist”

But changes are still happening in New York, and the rotation of officials at the Justice Department led to the first serious political consequences. For example, the anti-corruption investigation against Eric Adams was closed, and although the New York City mayor actively pleaded for a Trump pardon, it was not necessary to resort to even those measures. Adams found himself under investigation in 2024 after a conflict with the Biden administration when he faulted fellow Democrats for not wanting to solve the immigration crisis. The streets and lodgings of New York then filled with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from all over the world, who were deported en masse to the Democratic states of Texas and Florida. Because of this, crime skyrocketed in the city – authorities even brought the National Guard into the subway after a series of violent attacks. Democrats responded to Adams with a criminal case about gifts from lobbyists from Turkey, Qatar, Uzbekistan and a search for “foreign agents” in his team. Now the case against Adams is being dismissed as part of Trump’s strategy to reduce the politicization of law enforcement. The mayor will be required to cooperate with Trump’s crackdown on migrants, especially before his reelection in November, which guarantees continued political instability in New York City.

Seeing Adams’ situation, who as a Democrat is forced to become a “secret Trumpist”, scandalized former New York governor Andrew Cuomo decided to stage his political comeback. In the summer of 2021, he was forced to resign due to a series of endless scandals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo came up with the “brilliant” idea of placing coronavirus patients in nursing homes due to overcrowding in hospitals. But the boarding houses turned into “plague barracks”, and the mortality rate there was off the charts. At the same time, Cuomo, considered an ideal leader by Democrats, proudly refused the help offered by Trump, not wanting to cooperate with the Republicans. But later, more than a dozen of Cuomo’s former employees accused him of sexual harassment. After that, everyone began to distance themselves from him, and Cuomo was forced to resign. He waited a couple of years and decided to run for mayor of New York. For him, it is now a win-win situation, because that post is now occupied by an equally scandalous character, Eric Adams, who will cooperate with the Republicans. Cuomo will try to declare a “left-wing liberal jihad” on his opponent.

Suburbs in Crisis: The End of the Era of Government Subsidies

Chaos is growing in Washington, which in its socio-political parameters is the “twin brother” of New York. The American capital is going through hard times against the backdrop of Trump’s “shock therapy”. The average cost of housing in the District of Columbia has fallen by 20% since November 2024, from $700,000 to $560,000. In the suburbs adjacent to Washington, the number of urgently sold houses has jumped by as much as 60-80%. The population is leaving the capital, fleeing mass purges by Trumpists. The dismissal of tens of thousands of officials is having an effect, and soon their number may reach hundreds of thousands. The number of unemployed in the District of Columbia has also begun to rise sharply, and de facto the US capital has been plunged into a deep recession.

Moreover, the crisis situation is hitting the neighboring states hard. In the eternally troubled Maryland, financial problems have already worsened, because local municipal bonds have begun to trade at junk levels. Counties neighboring Washington, such as Fairfax, have always been among the wealthiest in the United States, because they have always had a stream of money from the state budget. Now Trump is cutting off this flow and transferring these settlements to “honest self-sufficiency”, so problems will begin, and there is no need to talk about Washington itself. The US capital is already flooded with homeless people and migrants, and the crime rate there is off the charts, like in New York.

The District of Columbia sets anti-records for the number of car thefts, and recently a Democratic congressman’s car was stolen at gunpoint, a 5-minute walk from the Capitol. Many legislators sleep in the Congress buildings and are afraid to go beyond them, and if there is less money, Washington may finally turn into a ghetto city like Detroit, and the reason for this is not Trump’s policy, but the failures of the local liberal leadership, similar to New York.

Against this background, the fight between Democrats will only intensify, because they still believe in their monopoly on power in the city. The left will probably join in, calling for the police to be disbanded altogether, and New York continues to quickly turn into the next Detroit. Even under Trump, it continues to remain a destructive liberal metropolis, but the 47th US President will clearly try to extract maximum benefit from the situation in order to turn the metropolis, if not into a “red city”, then seriously “paint” it in this color.