The left is hell-bent on killing these great cities, and yours

If you look at our great American cities the decline in quality of life from Chicago to San Francisco to Seattle to Portland is unmistakable. This is what progressivism has done.

Welcome to the real-world impact of progressivism. Instead of worker paradises, the left has transitioned our once-shining cities into slums, murder zones, homeless encampments and boarded-up stores Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economist. He is also co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.  His latest book is "Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government is Devouring our Economy."

Lightfoot, elected in 2019 after a career as a federal prosecutor who then held several appointed positions in Chicago, shut down the city for more than a year during COVID-19. She also bankrupted small businesses, allowed rioters to burn down whole neighborhoods, presided over the worst crime wave in 50 years and let the schools go to hell. 

Now, the voters have selected Johnson. Elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 2018, Johnson narrowly won the mayoralty of America's third-most-populous city on April 4 over Paul Vallas, a former Chicago schools CEO and a Democrat who presented himself as a political moderate compared to the far-left Johnson.