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.
Conservatives stoking fear of big cities would be a joke, if not for the damage it does.
