In a Sea Change, Republicans See Baltimore as a Story of Poverty, Not Crime

Is good, old-fashioned, tough-on-crime Republicanism finally at an end?
By
David Weigel
Photographer: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

COLUMBIA, S.C.–Shortly before he’d address a room of South Carolina Republicans, Rick Santorum admitted he’d been wrong. Hundreds of miles away, civil unrest in Baltimore was transforming into citywide protests. Santorum, who’d represented Pennsylvania in Congress from 1991 to 2007, admitted that his era had responded to crime with policies that hollowed out urban communities.

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