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“This is a very real war that we are fighting here, and we need every tool box to win it,” Lopez told the New York Post.
For Lopez, Trump’s proposal to send in the National Guard isn’t some controversial stunt—it’s common sense. “Flat-out common sense,” as he put it.
Lopez has seen it all.
“We have human traffickers connected with Tren de Aragua here selling women for $150 on Facebook Marketplace,” he said. “I had high school students gunned down by a Venezuelan migrant on their way home from school a couple of weeks ago.”
Things have gotten so bad that Lopez says the gang violence now has an “international” dimension, thanks to criminals pouring across the border.
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders seem more worried about their political careers than the people dying on their streets.
Here’s the shocking part: Lopez says many of his fellow Democrats know he’s right.
“I’d say probably half the city council is in favor of it,” Lopez revealed, noting they come from “overwhelmingly Democratic” backgrounds.
So why won’t they speak up?
Money. Power. Fear.
“I don’t know if anyone is willing to stand up against the billionaire governor because of fear that he would dump money into their opponent’s campaigns,” Lopez explained.
In other words, they’re willing to let neighborhoods descend into chaos rather than risk political fallout.
Lopez says his constituents overwhelmingly support Trump’s plan. And they have reason to: when the National Guard was deployed in Washington, D.C., crime dropped by 45% in just weeks.
Former Cook County prosecutor Robert Milan points out this isn’t about politics at all. “This isn’t a political issue. It’s a safety issue,” Milan said. “Nobody’s talking about the people getting killed in South and West Side.”
He’s right. Chicago families want safety, not partisan games.
But the Democratic establishment keeps playing political theater.
“It’s all about versus President Trump versus Mayor Johnson,” Milan said. “It’s not about the children, not about these poor families.”
Raymond Lopez is one of the few Democrats willing to break ranks and speak the truth.
The rest? They’d rather keep quiet, keep their jobs, and let the bloodshed continue—all to avoid admitting Trump might be right.
That’s today’s Democrat Party in a nutshell: politics first, people last.
