“Tears for Criminals, Silence for Victims” 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

El Salvador used to be a murder capital. Then Bukele shows up, shoves the gangs into cages, and suddenly moms can walk their kids to school without whispering a prayer just to make it home alive. But of course, cue the usual outrage: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN, and every latte-sipping columnist at the Washington Post shrieking, “Dictatorship!”

Strange, isn’t it? The tears always seem reserved for the criminals. Lock up gang leaders? That’s “abuse.” Crush extortion rackets? That’s “authoritarian.” Meanwhile, the real victims—the shopkeepers, the bus drivers, the families—never got a single sympathy headline.

And now that President Trump and his team dare to try a Bukele-style approach, the script doesn’t change: crocodile tears for the thugs, silence for the innocent. To hear these critics tell it, the only “human right” worth defending is a gang member’s right to terrorize neighborhoods.

Don’t believe me? Just take a look at California, New York, Chicago, even Washington, D.C. The same crowd is busy crying rivers to protect “their” criminals while everyday citizens are left to deal with the chaos.