Today’s headline nicely sums up the problem afflicting the modern Democratic Party, and it comes to us courtesy of the New York Times of all places. The newspaper’s Nicholas Kristof writes:
As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall, one challenge is that some of the bluest parts of the country — cities on the West Coast — are a mess.
Centrist voters can reasonably ask: Why put liberals in charge nationally when the places where they have greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime and dysfunction?
Mr. Kristof writes that “the truth is that too often we offer a version of progressivism that doesn’t result in progress” and adds: