San Francisco has a new mayor taking office shortly: Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, and described as a “moderate Democrat”—a term that, if not an oxymoron, is a museum piece these days. And on the relative scale of things, what does a “moderate” Democrat look like in San Francisco? Maybe someone who doesn’t want to make drag queen story hours mandatory in pre-school?
In any case, Lurie, who has never held political office, was elected as an “outsider” with a mandate to “clean up the city.” Maybe he will have some success, but my bet is that he will retreat when the various aggressive progressive pressure groups organize to oppose any serious reforms.
But maybe things are actually improving in San Francisco? Just look below at how much better San Francisco drivers have become over the last decade, and especially since 2020!
That was sarcasm, in case any readers’ sarcasm detector is off today. I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe—just maybe, radical idea—that the trend represents a visible edge of “re-imagining” policing (which meant not enforcing the law at all) as a result of the “defund the police” movement that went into overdrive after a drug addict died in a police interaction in the spring of 2020.
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