City of villains: Republicans stoke fears of Democratic-run cities

Messaging about crime and disorder in major US cities is an expression of conservatives' existential dread of being ruled by urban elites and Black leaders

Atlanta is, from time to time, the center of the political universe.

It is also home to all things evil and villainous, a festering cesspool of lurid crime, a shooting gallery" in the words of Donald Trump, spoken in the vile confines of a brand new college basketball arena amid the unspeakable horrors of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood with a microbrewery.