Even WaPo Agrees: Chicago's Leftism Has Doomed City
Pro tip for lefties running American cities into the ground: When you've lost The Washington Post, you've lost pretty much everyone.
Oh, granted, I'm sure maybe a few stragglers in Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration aren't giving up the ghost. However, they'll probably be arriving at city hall in sunglasses and phony mustaches (even the women; check your cisnormativity) for the next few weeks after The Washington Post's editorial board slammed the Windy City on Monday.
The title pretty much says it all: "Chicago has lost its mind." I know, some among our readership are probably shocked it happened this recently, but Mayor Johnson is an epic failure in a way that even Lori Lightfoot or Rahm Emanuel couldn't be. This, indeed, is saying something; he's a sort of ur-Mamdani without the charm or pragmatism, who -- in his latest fit of abject economic illiteracy -- wants to keep lockdown-era spending going while running a massive deficit. That's led to a showdown over the city's budget which Johnson seems determined to win even though voters think it's insanity.
And while Chicago's "wildly underfunded pensions" are part of an underlying economic malaise that's stymied most modern mayors of the nation's third-most populous city, Johnson's unique lack of vision and belief that government should function as a charity of both corporations and individual taxpayers has The Washington Post's editorial board, and even other state and local politicians, pushing back:
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