Conservatives cheer progressive San Francisco prosecutor Chesa Boudin’s loss. But it shouldn’t be seen as the beginning of a trend, unless Democrats don’t learn the right lessons from it, writes cptime.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin addresses supporters after being recalled from office at a primary election night event in San Francisco on June 7, 2022.The polls saw it coming.As expected, his loss is being celebrated with Champagne by lock-’em-up conservatives and, for that matter, a lot of crime-weary liberals who have had enough of so-called progressive prosecutors while crime has been on a pandemic-related surge nationwide, especially in cities.
Boudin, 41, who grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood with his adoptive parents — Weather Underground radicals-turned-college professors Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn — was a first-time candidate who narrowly won in November 2019. Boudin ran into other problems, including a shortage of allies. For example, the city’s progressive mayor, London Breed, also under pressure to address the city’s problems with a homeless epidemic on downtown streets, turned against him in a startling move. She can now pick his successor.
There is a lesson here for Democrats and other liberals who worry about winning back frustrated and displaced working-class and middle-class swing voters who have turned to the lock-’em-up pseudo-solutions promoted by the right: Demographics can be your political destiny. First, learn to connect with voters’ concerns at the grassroots level close to home.
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