WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE AND DECLINE? How the riots of 50 years ago changed Detroit: The city’s decline began before 1967, but the violence then made it worse. “Sadly, by most measures black Detroiters are considerably worse off today than they were in 1967.” The rioters were presented as the vanguard of social justice, even though the consequences of their actions fell on the poorest and weakest.

Detroit’s last Republican mayor . . . well, you know the rest.

Related: Why First-World Countries Have Third-World Cities.