America


The Deliberate Trashing of America’s Blue Cities


Woke mayors make cities dirtier and less safe to push out the middle class who might vote against them.


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BY LISA SCHIFFREN


here are many reasons why middle class flight from blue cities is at a new peak. Everyone who could leave during the lock- downs, for suburbs, exurbs, and free states


Race to the Bottom


These mayors are turning their once-proud cities into basket cases.


n a recent piece in The American Spectator, Scott McKay, editor of the


Louisiana blog The Hayride, argued that LaToya Cantrell, the mayor of New Orleans, is the nation’s worst mayor because she has decimated city services. There are only 957 cops left. The billions allocated by the federal government to rebuild city drainage


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systems after Hurricane Katrina disappeared, with nothing built. The middle class that has fled The Big


Easy is both Black and white. McKay argues that what’s left isn’t much of a city at all. Major functions, like Mardi Gras, are run


by people who live elsewhere. A case for “worst mayor” could be


made for Baltimore — given its high rates


where they could get more space, did so. Crime rates have soared in Democrat-led cities since


2020. The number of police to protect innocent citizens is down after defunding and mass retirements. Homelessness is up, with few efforts to get the often


violent, mentally ill off the streets. Illegal immigrants are flooding sanctuary cities, absorbing resources meant for taxpayers. Public education is more blatantly “progressive,” with teachers’ unions making the rules, and schools adopting


of illiteracy, crime, and utter dysfunction, which Mayor Brandon Scott is doing little to reverse. The former mayor, Catherine Pugh, just finished serving three years in jail. And Detroit has been in the running


for decades, ever since Mayor Coleman Young (1974-1994) famously turned a formerly wealthy city that was floundering economically into a permanent basket case by pushing out the Black and white middle classes and their businesses. But it’s New York and Chicago that are


competing most vigorously for the “worst” title.


Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was


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