Found an extended explanation of how Willie Horton tanked Michael Dukakis’s Presidential bid and it wasn’t the Republicans’ TV ad.

You can read it here on Tipp Insights.

Author Diana Allocco argues that Democrats have forgotten the lessons of Wille Horton with the following result:

With Democrats’ reclaiming full national power in 2020 and capitalizing on their control of big cities — and forgetting the harsh political lessons they were taught by outraged voters over a generation ago — Democrats have eagerly returned to their criminal-coddling roots.

True to form, they are letting felons out of prison.

Proudly. And everywhere they rule.

They have implemented their favorite leftist soft-on-crime policies, like non-prosecution of offenses.

They have commuted sentences.

They have eliminated cash bail.

They have saved their harshest rhetoric and punitive policies for police.

To put it succinctly, Democrats have, in places they run, basically decriminalized crime.

And we see the result: public fear.

To the left, that’s simply due to racist Republicans whipping up false emotion by manipulating voters’ “lizard brain” ignorance.

But here’s the real reason people are afraid: criminals, unrestrained by conscience or law, have been set free to hurt them. (Just google “random attack” for dismaying examples.)

In 1988, Democrats had a “Willie Horton problem.”

Their problem was: Willie Horton.

In other words, the Democrats’ problem was the facts of the case, the truth of what actually happened in the real world — the horror — as a direct result of Democrat policies.

In 2022, the Democrats’ problem is the same as before, the predators they let out to prey on the innocent.

But now, the Democrats have moved on and moved up.

Their criminals aren’t rewarded with a mere weekend furlough — these days they get a forever furlough.

These criminals own the streets — and virtually imprison the rest of us.

The results are utterly predictable.

As is the voter response, coming November 8.