The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash
In recent years San Francisco, widely regarded as America’s most progressive city, has experienced a far-reaching anti-progressive backlash. In 2022, voters recalled three progressive school board members and progressive DA Chesa Boudin. Then moderates took control of the city’s Board of Supervisors. Last year they won a majority on the city’s Democratic Party central committee, and in November San Francisco elected a new moderate mayor and decisively re-elected the centrist tough-on-crime DA who replaced Boudin.
In a detailed, deeply reported piece in The New Republic titled “The Shadowy…
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