Sneaking up on the Democrats, President Trump has an important trump card that could crush them like an elephant on a 'rat. 

According to CNBC columnist Jay Novak:

That issue is the controversial bail reform law pushed through the New York State legislature by Governor Andrew Cuomo late last year. The law eliminates cash bail on the argument that cash bail discriminates against poorer defendants.

But critics of the law have been warning for months that eliminating bail was sure to put too many criminals with violent tendencies back on streets, even if they weren't currently under arrest for very violent crimes.

Less than three weeks after the law went into effect, it sure looks like the naysayers were right.

In what's becoming an almost hourly stream of depressing updates, New York's newspapers, local TV news shows, and news sites are posting story after story about violent crimes being committed by people instantly released after arrests because of bail reform.

He points out that the issue is one of those things that is important to people, and something they talk about.  It has already sunk many a Democratic candidate, most famously Michael Dukakis, whose indifference to violent crime got him those Willie Horton ads back in the late '80s, costing him the election.

And it should be.  As Robert Young Pelton has smartly said: The foremost human right is personal security.  There's no point in blathering on about the topic over other things if the issue is whether you're alive or dead.

The press is on to these issues because reporters know it's drawing audience interest. 

What's more, it's not just New York's bail reform; it's also leftist judges and officials who let illegal aliens out to prey on Americans in the interest of protecting them from deportation.

Now there's bail "reform" in New York, which has led to a string of anti-Semitic attacks as well as talks of repeal and, over in San Francisco, the election of anti–law and order far-left Hugo Chávez man Chesa Boudin as district attorney.  His platform is "restorative justice," which means that the perps apologize instead of go to prison.  What could go wrong?

It sounds like the perfect setup for a Republican wipeout.  The essential logic in the Novak piece is that voters want something better than "oh, that happened" when their crazed ideas don't work out the way they say they will and people get hurt. 

The Trumpsters should play this up hard as the election gets going.