Proving the old saw that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, one of the New York Times’ marquee columnists has agreed — grudgingly, stubbornly, kicking and screaming — that President Trump is right: There’s too much crime in the nation’s capital. As Dowd tells it, she was having dinner with her sibling Peggy in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood recently when the metaphorical mugging zapped the liberal right out of her: Peg’s beloved Buick vanished from its parking spot by Maureen’s house. Adding insult to injury, Peggy soon received more than $1,800 worth of speed camera tickets for driving 70 miles an hour in a 25-mph zone, and had to prove the car was stolen in order to get the summonses tossed.
Author: Andrea Peyser
Published at: 2025-08-17 20:46:15
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