Democrats screech "abuse of power" every time Donald Trump dares to enforce the law, but their real terror stems from one unassailable truth: safety and security would shatter their grip on power in America's crumbling urban strongholds.

President Trump activated the National Guard in Washington, D.C., earlier this month under direct presidential authority, deploying an estimated 2,279 soldiers and airmen from D.C. and six states to conduct presence patrols, man checkpoints, and deter crime across all eight wards.

Troops now carry weapons if needed, and the operation has already yielded at least 465 arrests, with officials linking it to broader beautification efforts ahead of the nation's 250th Independence Day next year.

Trump touted the mission's success during a visit to a D.C. patrol center, declaring, "We're going to make it safe, and we're going to then go on to other places."

The president specified Chicago as the likely next target, followed by New York, with hints of expansion to Baltimore and beyond.

The White House underscores this crackdown remains separate from a parallel mobilization of up to 1,700 Guardsmen in 19 states for immigration enforcement support, such as clerical tasks and processing at ICE facilities, though detractors see it as a unified push against chaos in blue bastions.

As of August 24, Pentagon officials confirm planning is underway for a Chicago deployment, despite strong local resistance, while Trump has expanded his rhetoric to threaten military intervention in Baltimore to "clean up" crime amid a spat with Maryland's governor.

Deployments in D.C. have focused on tourist districts rather than the highest-crime zones, fueling accusations of political theater, but Trump presses on, signaling the Guard could remain extended and replicate the model nationwide.

Democrats wasted no time unleashing a barrage of insults and obstruction.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat, a New York Democrat and self-described former undocumented immigrant, warned on X, "Foreign nations Trump has deployed the military to: 0. Cities in the United States Trump has deployed the military to: 1, possibly more to come. How is this protecting us?"

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted the Chicago threat as an "authoritrian overreach," while Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decried it as unwarranted federal overreach.

"The guard is not needed," Johnson insists. "This is not the role of our military. The brave men and women who signed up to serve our country did not sign up to occupy Americans."

The ACLU of Illinois vows to challenge any unjustified deployment or excessive force, noting the legal hurdle Trump faces without state approval

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries labeled the entire push a "manufactured crisis" to justify military intervention, insisting Trump has "no basis" for sending troops to Chicago.

Sen. Chris Murphy accused Trump of ignoring Republican-led states with higher violence rates, calling the D.C. takeover purely political.

City leaders in targeted areas, all deep-blue Democrats, vow to push back, framing the moves as authoritarian intimidation rather than crime-fighting – conveniently overlooking their own failures that necessitated federal action.

Democrats oppose these efforts because high crime rates and unchecked illegal immigration are the lifeblood of their political machine.

Seventeen of the top 20 most violent U.S. cities boast Democratic mayors, often in red states where blue policies drag down statewide safety, as detailed in Heritage Foundation analyses.

FBI data reveals over 80 percent of homicides cluster in Democrat-controlled areas, with more than half in just 2 percent of counties – urban cores where progressive ideals like defunding police and no-cash bail reign supreme.

Soros-backed district attorneys prioritize criminal rights over victims, spiking recidivism and ensuring chaos persists in minority and low-income communities, the very voter bases Democrats court with promises of "equity" while dodging accountability.

Cities like San Francisco and Portland hemorrhage businesses due to legalized theft and violence, yet Democrats tolerate it as an "acceptable byproduct" of "social justice," as evidenced by 14 major blue cities shattering homicide records in 2021-2022 amid defund-the-police fervor.

This engineered disorder fosters fear, poverty, and instability, ballooning reliance on government handouts – welfare, housing assistance – that Democrats, for decades, peddle as salvation, securing loyalty through dependency.

High crime flips the script on causality: it perpetuates poverty, not vice versa.

Mass illegal immigration amplifies this strategy.

Lax border policies under Biden racked up over 10 million encounters, flooding blue states and cities that host 70 percent of undocumented immigrants via sanctuary laws in places like California.

Democrats back this influx to inflate census counts, including non-citizens, for extra House seats and Electoral College votes, potentially adding 13-20 nationwide and tilting power toward Democrat-heavy areas like New York and California.

Illegal immigration imports future voters through amnesty paths, with polls showing 60-70 percent of Latinos leaning Democratic, while enabling "slave labor" in agriculture, construction, and hospitality.

According to the Pew Research Center, there were approximately 9.7 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. workforce in 2023, representing 5.6 percent of the total workforce. The Center for Migration Studies estimates around 8.3 million undocumented workers in 2023, making up about 5.2 percent of the workforce, depressing wages by 3-5 percent in low-skill sectors, benefiting business lobbies under a humanitarian guise. This creates another dependent underclass, echoing historical exploitation, and suppresses American wages to expand the welfare state for votes.

Progressive ideology frames it as "reparative" for past injustices, tolerating crime and trafficking in sanctuary cities to fuel division and government growth.

Democrats cling to over 80 percent of the black vote by propagandizing eternal victimhood, blaming "systemic oppression" for ills their own policies exacerbate.

Safer streets and secure borders would empower self-reliance, eroding the need for their paternalistic state.

Minorities thriving without handouts? That spells electoral doom for the party that thrives on division.

Democrats aren't dumb—they're deliberate.

They manufacture misery to maintain control, hurling "racist" slurs at rescuers while their cities burn.

Trump's hammer exposes the scam: American prosperity terrifies them more than any troop deployment ever could.