Trump may win because Pittsburgh is a basket case — Brandon McGinley

It s the suburban resident s nightmare scenario, and it happened in Moon this week. A periodically unhoused person migrates to the suburbs and allegedly knifes to death a jogger  Benjamin Brallier, a husband, father and state law enforcement officer along a popular trail, after having skipped a lenient bail on another charge.

It s a tragedy seemingly designed in a laboratory to shatter the sense of security that draws people to suburban life, while appearing, fairly or not, to be another example of the metastasis of urban disorder from the city to the rest of southwestern Pennsylvania  and of the failure of the city s public officials to address and contain it.

For that reason, it presents a major problem for the party on whose watch social disorder has visibly increased, while governing competence has visibly declined. In other words, the failures of Pittsburgh s Democratic politicians are hurting Kamala Harris bid to lead in Washington.