DAVID MARCUS: NJ's World Cup transit crisis betrays Democrats' utter incompetence

With less than two months to go before the kickoff of the 2026 World Cup, Democratic leaders in New Jersey and New York are scrambling to figure out how to get fans to MetLife Stadium. The results would be hilarious if they did not betray such utter incompetence.

There is no possible excuse for this, as a matter of logistics. We aren't talking about the D-Day landing here. It's a few soccer games. This should not flummox state leaders.

We see it all over the country, wherever Democrats are in charge. 

Take Maryland, where the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, destroyed by a ship two years ago, was originally slated at $2 billion and set to open in 2028, but now is estimated at $5 billion and won't carry a car until 2030.

Amazed, I called a friend who was a New York City councilman at the time and said, "Hey Joe, there's this bridge construction down here, they say it's going to be done early and under budget. Do you know what that means?"

To which Joe replied, "No, I've never heard those words before." We were joking, but barely.

But through some magical sorcery of governance, in our rural areas, officials are actually capable of just, you know, fixing stuff.

The amount of complete incompetence that urban voters accept from Democrats is truly bizarre. Just look at the rampant fraud in Minnesota's Somali "Quality Learing Centers," or California's fraud-laden hospices where, miraculously, almost every patient recovers.

Say what you will about the old-school Democratic Party machines that ruled places like New York and Philly in the past. They were corrupt as all get out, but they could also get things done. For example, none of this transit nonsense occurred when Giants Stadium hosted the World Cup in 1994.

The sad state of affairs, all over our great nation, from blue city to blue city is that the only thing Democrats seem capable of is spending money, often your money, to manage our urban decline.