You would think that even the most “progressive” (read extreme left-wing) Democrat would eventually decide that enough is enough when it comes to policies that lead to horrific suffering and criminal actions against citizens they are charged with protecting, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
At least in Chicago.
The latest outrageous and horrendous tragedy: ‘Career Criminal Sets Young Woman Aflame On Subway.’
Woman, 26, is set ablaze on Chicago train by male passenger months after Ukrainian refugee died at hands of subway rider https://t.co/FefXjd579a
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 18, 2025
There’s video of the incident circulating on social media, but I’m not sharing it — because at the end of the day, it shows a woman being set on fire by a career criminal, and if someone wants to watch that, you can go look for it yourself.
If this were just a freak, isolated act of violence, I wouldn’t be writing about it. It would simply be a heartbreaking tragedy. But it’s not isolated — it’s yet another horror story out of a blue city where soft-on-crime policies and ideological experiments have turned everyday life into a gamble, and where innocent people pay the price for politicians’ refusal to enforce the law.
Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez: “I can’t keep everybody in jail because the State’s Attorney wants me to.” So she released a man who had just knocked a woman unconscious, and then he set another woman on fire on the #cta.https://t.co/unHZpWedlR
— Evan McKenzie ? (@evanmck) November 21, 2025
The man who carried out this unimaginable attack wasn’t some random individual who suddenly snapped. As awful as it is, no government — no matter how competent — can stop every unpredictable psychotic break. That’s simply reality.
But that’s not what happened here.
This was a career criminal — someone the State’s Attorney explicitly warned the judge about, urging that he be detained because he was a clear danger to the public and likely to commit exactly the kind of heinous crime he ultimately did. Yet in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago, violent offenders are treated like victims and released back onto the streets, and the cycle continues.
And in Illinois? Governor J.B. Pritzker, oh he who pines to become our next president, just shrugs. In a city where horrific crimes happen on every day ending in “y,” the people in charge seem disturbingly comfortable with the consequences of their own soft-on-crime policies.
Chicago judge named and shamed after she ignored prosecutor's pleas to jail serial criminal before he
'boarded train and set woman on fire' pic.twitter.com/vpxggCGbMr— Simo Saadi???? (@Simo7809957085) November 21, 2025
That’s not some wild accusation from a right-wing pundit trying to squeeze political points out of a tragedy. It’s simply the truth. Brandon Johnson — along with the entire so-called criminal justice “reform” apparatus — has helped create a city where crime isn’t just an unfortunate reality; it’s the predictable outcome of public policies that treat criminals as misunderstood victims who deserve coddling rather than consequences.
https://twitter.com/lakemonstercl1/status/199179463526653183
It’s not just that the criminals turning Chicago into the murder capital of America are “known wolves” — though they absolutely are. It’s that police are stuck in an impossible position. They can often see trouble coming a mile away, they know exactly who’s on the edge and likely to explode, but until someone actually commits the crime, their hands are tied.
This isn’t Minority Report. Precrime doesn’t exist in America. And thanks to decades of gutting mental health institutions and refusing to build a system that can intervene before people snap, there’s no real mechanism to remove dangerously unstable individuals from the streets.
But in blue cities — Chicago most of all — the people terrorizing neighborhoods aren’t hypothetical risks or “potential offenders.” They’re actual criminals with lengthy rap sheets, arrested over and over again, only to be spit right back onto the streets by a system determined to “reform” them into repeat offenders. There’s no guessing game here. No need for “precrime” — these are individuals who have already proven they’re a danger, and yet the system still waves them through.
Yes, the criminals are responsible for every horrific act they commit. But the judges and politicians who designed a revolving door that points these offenders directly at innocent people? They bear responsibility for the predictable carnage that follows. They knowingly built a system that invites criminals to do their worst.
How does this happen? Look no further than the public-sector unions that run the political machinery in these cities. Brandon Johnson is a dream candidate for them — his entire career has been dedicated to shaking down the city on behalf of the hard-left teachers’ union. And in every major city, public employees’ unions are the biggest, most reliable voting bloc. They deliver turnout, and in return they get sweetheart policies and zero accountability.
People often blame all city residents for electing radical left leadership. And yes, there’s some truth there. If working-class voters turned out in force, they would dwarf the entrenched Democratic blocs. But they usually don’t — many sit out elections entirely. Meanwhile, the Democrat-aligned groups that rely on taxpayer-funded systems always show up, always mobilize, and are densely concentrated in urban areas.
Add in the cultural elites and the media propaganda mills, and the left becomes almost impossible to dislodge. That’s how cities end up with leaders like Brandon Johnson — the system is engineered to keep the hard-left in power.
Ordinary residents are left with two bleak options: pack up their lives and leave, or stay put and endure the consequences. And leaving isn’t some simple fix — it’s financially crushing and emotionally devastating, especially for people whose roots in these communities go back decades or even generations.
Yes, the political pendulum will eventually swing back, but only a little. Look at Detroit: after fifty years of decline under disastrous left-wing governance, it’s making slight improvements but remains a shadow of what it once was. The reality is, it will never fully recover.
And frankly, neither will Chicago.
