Nancy Pelosi's Attack On Trump's Alcatraz Reopen Is Her Stupidest Initiative Yet
Democrats must stop falling for obvious bait
“With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tells the San Francisco Chronicle in a statement.
“It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies.”
What should really concern Democrats, however, is that fictional Hollywood movie tropes (Manchurian Candidate, anyone?) are still coming out of the mouths of party leadership even at this late date. Nancy Pelosi has fallen for the bait — again.
“The reported Alcatraz visit comes as Trump seeks to deflect attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein case,” Joe Garofoli adds. Team Trump is getting burned by their own pandering to conspiracy theory fires. It is a mistake, however, to think that Trump is pursuing a project he came up with before the Epstein case heated up. Time only flows in one direction in our universe, so intentionality cannot flow backwards.
As I wrote just after Trump floated his idea to reopen Alcatraz as a working prison, it will not matter what Pam Bondi and the Bureau of Prisons tell him about the costs of reconstruction. Trump will keep talking about reopening Alcatraz as long as Democrats keep falling for the bait. The way to make him stop trying to reopen Alcatraz is to shut up about Alcatraz and let him see the dollar signs for himself.
If Alcatraz is still a National Park Service site in November 2026 because the Bureau of Prisons cannot locate a budget, and Republicans in Congress are unwilling to fund Trump’s vanity project, then midterm voters will not receive it as a failure. No one will be convinced to vote for Democrats who make them feel stupid or call them racist for wanting criminals off the street, especially undocumented alien criminals.
Trump brings out the worst in his enemies. It is his superpower. Nancy Pelosi just did the George Floyd Democrats-kneeling-in-Kente-cloth-thing. Crime rates rose and black lives mattered less in a world where ‘Black Lives Matter’, then Democrats wonder how their monopoly over the ‘BIPOC vote’ slipped with Kamala on the ballot.
Race-hustling urban leftist politicians have openly attacked and gaslit white business owners for leaving city centers to escape the inevitable violent disorder, so whites once again leave the cities, as they did in the 1970s. Radicalized elements thrive in the low trust society left behind (see: Zohran Mamdani). This is how Manhattan or San Francisco or Portland or Los Angeles becomes a South Africa.
Reflexive, denialist opposition to criticism of crime rates is voter repellent because it treats troublesome American citizens who vote for Donald Trump like bugs that need to be zapped. If Democrats were smart, they would offer Trump a deal on prison infrastructure improvements to handle the new inmates from a renewed round of tough-on-crime policies in federal law enforcement.
But Democrats are not that party right now. They don’t know how to be that party anymore, at least not with him. They are still too busy weaponizing empathy for criminals.
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