Fareed Zakaria is a senior staffer at CNN. So his comments here really count. He and CNN are on the Dems side yet it's still it's strong criticism: of the Left. Of far-left Dems. Which is where many are positioned now, and many more are headed.
Fareed is one of the few on the Left who is willing to call out bad things, even when they're on the Left. He was one of the few Dems who had the guts to admit that all the pre-2024 election law cases against Trump were "lawfare". "They would not have happened if his name had not been Trump", he said.
This criticism of how the far Left, running major cities, has ruined them, is deserved. Many cities are now a big mess. That were not a mess a decade or two ago. IOW, becoming messy has been a result of policy. Specifically, far Left, soft-on-crime, soft-on-drugs*, tough-on-business policies.
In another video this morning, I hear long-time Democrat, Mark Hemingway say the same thing (and, related). As an ex Portland Oregon resident, he now mourns its downfall, the trashing of his once very special city.
Other cities out-west which have been infected with the far-Left "progressive" bug are LA, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego. In the middle of America there's Chicago. And out east, New York and Boston stand out.
This is definitely in the "Things I don't get" category. I don't get how a far-Left politician can ruin a city, then the residents go ahead and vote an even more Leftish replacement. That happened in Chicago, in LA, in San Francisco. Most lately in New York.
Apparently people simply do not see that there's a connection between the politicians they vote for, and the results of their voting.
Similarly, many will flee a state because they don't like it any more. That's happening right now in California. Many are fleeing to Texas, or Tennessee, or Florida. Where they proceed to vote Blue all over again. I just do not get it.
Similarly, many will flee a country because it's been horrible to them. And then go ahead and try to recreate the place they just fled. Clear example is the Somalis in Minnesota.
The Somali's Congressional rep in MN is the World's Greatest Ingrate, Ilhan Omar. She has been filmed saying that she's in Congress to "help Somalia". When her Oath of Office to the Congress of the United States requires her to work for the benefit of the United States. All while her Somali constituents proceed to replicate in Minnesota the Somali national sport of piracy -- looting, at latest count, $19 Billion from the American taxpayer. Under her blind eyes.
By the way, Omar may very well be a fraudulent asylum seeker as well. See "Ilhan Omar, the backstory they don't talk about". There's some pretty damning evidence there.
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* ADDED: I was a "soft on drugs" guy, until I saw the results. I'd thought that decriminalisation would help everyone. In practice it harmed everyone. So I changed my mind. The Amsterdam soft-on-marijuana example is not relevant, because that was soft weed. It didn't include hard drugs like heroin, crack cocaine, meth, fentanyl, which drug sanctuary cities like Portland do.
If we see things change, we ought to be prepared to change our minds.
A famous quote often attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes is:
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
