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In a little noticed move, Fox News appears to have contacted Republican senators and ask them a question.

Would you be open to Trump deploying the National Guard in your state's blue cities?

The answer Fox News got back was, yes.

We think this is an ominous turn in this debate.

Republicans in Congress are openly debating how far Trump can and should go in militarizing U.S. cities, and they're expressly discussing this as something that should

only be inflicted on democratic constituencies. Meanwhile, Democrats are consumed in a big debate

over whether they can talk about any of this at all. Yet polling is quite clear. What Trump is

doing is unpopular. We're talking today about this bizarre disconnect

with Jameson Fosier, who has a very good new piece on his newsletter, Finding Gravity, about the

reality of public opinion on all this. Good to have you on, Jameson. Thanks, Greg. I was happy to be

on. So Fox contacted GOP senators to ask if they'd support Trump sending troops to their state cities.

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said this, quote, blue cities like Memphis need all the help they can get to combat violent crime.

And Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri told Fox News, quote, local leaders in blue cities have allowed crime to run rampant while signaling an openness to troops coming to St. Louis.

Jamo, your reaction to all that?

Well, my first reaction is that Fox, as his standard for them, kind of loaded that question up for Republicans by asking them about sending

troops to to blue cities rather than about the crime-ridden areas run by Republicans in those red

states. If you look at the national stats on murders and other violent crimes over the last two

decades, you see a pretty consistent pattern of voices with the highest murder rates are in red states

run by Republican governors.

And a lot of them are in red cities.

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