The Chesa Boudin Inflection Point in the Fight for Civilizational Sanity

[Kamaji]

The Chesa Boudin Inflection Point in the Fight for Civilizational Sanity

Josh Hammer
Jun 10, 2022

Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a petri dish, even if they tried; Boudin really is that caricaturable.

Boudin's parents were Weather Underground domestic terrorists and, following the 1981 Brink's Robbery in New York state, convicted as cop-killers. They were incarcerated (Boudin's father was just released last November), and Boudin was thus raised in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood by Bill Ayers. Yes, that Bill Ayers -- the onetime Weather Underground leader, domestic terrorist kingpin and erstwhile comrade of another famous Hyde Park denizen, Barack Obama. Boudin's great-grand-uncle, Louis Boudin, was an influential Marxist legal theorist and an active member of the Socialist Labor Party of America. His grandfather, Leonard Boudin, was a radical leftist attorney who once represented Fidel Castro's revolutionary Cuban government. Chesa Boudin himself worked before law school in Caracas as a translator and researcher for Venezuela's (blessedly deceased) socialist president, Hugo Chavez.

In November 2019, Boudin was narrowly elected district attorney of San Francisco, America's foremost bastion of progressivism. (Notably, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor praised Boudin's "personal strength and commitment to reforming and improving the criminal justice system" via recorded video at his January 2020 swearing-in.) Boudin replaced as San Francisco DA George Gascon, the Havana-born, similarly light-on-crime, anti-prosecution "prosecutor" who moved southward and has served as Los Angeles County DA since December 2020. Boudin and Gascon, along with some others such as Cook County, Illinois' Kim Foxx, are the tips of the spear for what Andrew C. McCarthy in a March 2020 Commentary essay referred to as "The Progressive Prosecutor Project" -- a sprawling, George Soros-funded national movement to elect prosecutors who don't ... prosecute (or incarcerate).

This past Tuesday, San Franciscans recalled Chesa Boudin in clarion fashion, ousting him from office in a thunderous 20-point ballot box cri de coeur. That no less than San Francisco -- America's preeminent urban den of left-wing lunacy -- saw fit to render such a decisive verdict against the Chavez mentee represents an inflection point in the fight to restore and reclaim civilizational sanity from the forces of civilizational arson.

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Boudin's ouster is yet another data point evincing the woke Left's cultural and political overreach throughout the United States. Last November, one year after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by double-digits in Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin ascended to the governor's mansion by running during the campaign's closing stretch as a culture war-centric, anti-critical race theory leader. Elsewhere last November, the left-wing cities of Minneapolis and Seattle defeated a toxic "defund the police" ballot initiative and elected a pro-law-and-order Republican as district attorney, respectively. Those results should have been wake-up calls for "progressive prosecutor" zealots.

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Source:  https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2022/06/10/the-chesa-boudin-inflection-point-in-the-fight-for-civilizational-sanity-n2608529

[Kamaji]

I wish I could be as sanguine as the author about the meaning of Boudin's repudiation, but I cannot.

[Fishrrman]

This guy will probably be offered a position in the dem-communist "justice" department. And before biden (or kamala sutra) leaves office, he'll be nominated for a federal judgeship.