The recent drop in crime is likely the flip side of the coin of the (statistically anomalous) spike in crime during Covid. (I "statistically anomalous", because if you simply looked at the trends, that spike comes out of nowhere. It makes perfect sense when you include the environing social issues.)
The shift in the Republican party occurred in stages, the first stage in the mid-60's when Johnson signed the Civil- and Voting-Rights acts. As he recognized at the time, all the Southern Democrats (racists) fled the party for the GOP. The second stage occurred with Tip O'Neill, who abandoned any pretense of civility or governance in partisan politics. The slide into Trump was a smooth road all the way after that.
The recent drop in crime is likely the flip side of the coin of the (statistically anomalous) spike in crime during Covid. (I "statistically anomalous", because if you simply looked at the trends, that spike comes out of nowhere. It makes perfect sense when you include the environing social issues.)
The shift in the Republican party occurred in stages, the first stage in the mid-60's when Johnson signed the Civil- and Voting-Rights acts. As he recognized at the time, all the Southern Democrats (racists) fled the party for the GOP. The second stage occurred with Tip O'Neill, who abandoned any pretense of civility or governance in partisan politics. The slide into Trump was a smooth road all the way after that.