Even California Tapped the Brakes on Progressives

San Francisco has recalled its far-left George Soros funded district attorney. Chesa Boudin, whose parents were cop killers who went to jail and left him in the care of terrorist Bill Ayers, has been tossed from office. Talk about being groomed to be soft on crime, the guy turned his back on law and order and even progressive San Francisco had enough.

In Los Angeles, Rick Caruso, a billionaire Republican turned Democrat running on a law and order campaign, advanced to face progressive congresswoman Karen Bass in the general election.

California has had enough. Even Bass, who will run against Caruso and is a darling of the MSNBC crowd, has rejected defunding the police. The California electorate is tired of the far left.

This does not mean California is suddenly moderate or conservative. California is still a progressive state. But it has had enough of the excesses. The fact that California has reacted in this direction bodes poorly for Democrats in November, particularly as their loudest voices, from progressives in Congress to MSNBC, continue to clamor against funding police, deny crime waves, and push more and more nonsense.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, their fever has not broken and California’s voters rejection of the far left will be ignored. Look no further than Paul Waldman at the Washinton Post. Just before the election, he penned this column. He compared San Francisco’s crime problem to that of Fort Worth, TX, and Jacksonville, FL. His argument is that those cities, with comparable populations to San Francisco, have comparable homicide rates and Republican governance. Therefore, the media is buying the GOP’s narrative on crime about San Francisco.

What he ignores is San Francisco’s overall pattern of crime and lawlessness. Neither Jacksonville nor Fort Worth approach San Francisco’s overall problem. In neither city do stores worry about organized looting and residents dodge heroin needles on the street. Waldman, like much of the left, blames the right’s control of the mainstream press for pushing unfair narratives against the left as soft on crime.

The voters of San Franciso and California did no have the luxury of Waldman. They have to live in the third-world hell hole and saw it firsthand. They’ve had enough and threw Boudin out of office.

But the left will not be so easily persuaded. The same people who think the right controls the media think the police must be defunded and those are the loudest voices in the Democrat bubble.

November is going to be brutal for the left.