crime has risen during this pandemic, including in major cities that just happened to be blue. the pandemic, surprise, has a lot to do with that rise. what if i told you you are actually more likely to be killed in a red state done in a blue one? a new study by the center left a think tank third way found that murder rates are on average 40% higher in the 25 states donald trump won in 2020 than those who went for joe biden. take jacksonville in florida, a red city with a republican mayor. it had a wonder 28 more murders in 2020 than a city with a similar population, san francisco, which is run by a democratic mayor and often depicted as some sort of mad max lawless hellhole. bet you haven t heard about jacksonville in the news. if you look at the ten states with the highest murder rate in 2020, that was last year with available data, eight of them voted for a republican presidential nominee and every election this century. it s amazing, isn t it, how republicans have managed to