{"id":384185,"date":"2021-12-21T04:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/manchin-and-sf-mayor-breed-reject-bidens-progressivism\/"},"modified":"2021-12-21T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:28:05","slug":"manchin-and-sf-mayor-breed-reject-bidens-progressivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/manchin-and-sf-mayor-breed-reject-bidens-progressivism\/","title":{"rendered":"#Manchin and SF Mayor Breed reject Biden&#8217;s progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Manchin and SF Mayor Breed reject Biden&#8217;s progressivism<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe Manchin and London Breed have nothing in common.<\/p>\n<p>One is an old-school Democrat from West Virginia surviving and thriving in an increasingly red state, the other is the progressive mayor of San Francisco, a city that is a byword for cutting-edge left-wing politics.<\/p>\n<p>Yet both, in their own ways over the last week, signaled that Biden-era progressivism has reached its high-water mark. Manchin, of course, delivered an emphatic thumbs down to President Joe Biden\u2019s signature Build Back Better plan, while Breed reversed field on crime in a stunningly frank endorsement of law and order in a jurisdiction infamous for the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>The de facto pincer movement by the wildly different Democrats from wildly different parts of the country \u2014 San Francisco is roughly 19 times larger than the biggest city in West Virginia \u2014 shows that the progressive tide that built in the Trump years is finally colliding with political reality and the real-world consequences of progressive extravagance.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean that progressivism is spent, obviously. It dominates the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, academia and almost all the rest of elite culture. At the same time, Democrats still control the elected branches of government in Washington, a position of power they will exploit to the greatest extent possible during the next year. But a growing backlash against progressive excess has found expression in two notable acts of Democratic defiance.<\/p>\n<p>By now, the context of Manchin\u2019s \u201cno\u201d on Build Back Better is familiar. Joe Biden campaigned as a pragmatic Democrat only too h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y to ignore the progressive hothouse of Twitter. Once elected, he immediately developed a heroic image of himself as the next transformational Democratic president in the line of FDR and LBJ and empowered staffers who evidently take their political and tactical cues from social media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/JoeBiden2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden\" class=\"wp-image-20562562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/JoeBiden2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/JoeBiden2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/JoeBiden2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden\u2019s progressive ambitions are fading away.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This drove the fundamental mistake of not realizing that Manchin and any other Democratic dissenter in the 50-50 Senate had the power to derail Build Back Better and scaling it back from the outset accordingly. Instead, until the very end, the White House and congressional leadership acted as if Manchin could be cajoled or bullied out of whatever qualms he might consistently express.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Democrats will be able to reunite with the senator on a scaled-back spending bill in the new year, but the era of FDR fantasies is definitely over. Democrats should ask themselves: If they had a mandate to remake the country, why did the entire project depend on the approval of a single conservative Democrat from West Virginia?<\/p>\n<p>Now, Democrats are looking down the barrel of a midterm election wipeout that could give the GOP a durable House majority that will put paid to any thought of BBB-style legislation for years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/London-Breed.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\" class=\"wp-image-20562564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/London-Breed.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/London-Breed.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/London-Breed.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>San Francisco Mayor London Breed is answering back to the city\u2019s smash-and-grab epidemic.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Manchin said \u201cenough\u201d to big-spending federal aggrandizement, London Breed said it to the soft-on-crime consensus in blue cities that has led to spiraling disorder. The Bay Area, home to the smash-and-grab robbery and other routine offenses against basic human decency, has been Exhibit A.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding that even the tolerant people of perhaps the country\u2019s most tolerant city wouldn\u2019t put up with it much longer, Breed had her Howard Beale moment. In a speech clearly meant to set down a political and rhetorical marker, she called for an end to \u201cthe reign of criminals who are destroying our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Breed turnabout, from police-defunder a year ago to would-be Rudy Giuliani now, marks an end to the period after George Floyd\u2019s death when anti-police sentiment was ascendant.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"People sleep near discarded clothing and used needles on a street in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, on July 25, 2019.\" class=\"wp-image-20562565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>San Francisco Mayor London Breed is finding out the hard way that soft-on-crime policies fuel drug infestation on the streets.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Janie Har, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are other signs that the progressive momentum is beginning to give way. A rightward shift among Latinos shows the limits of paint-by-numbers identity politics. That the left\u2019s response to the grassroots movement against critical race theory in the schools has been to deny there is any CRT in the schools speaks to a telling defensiveness. Next year, the Supreme Court may well knock out Roe v. Wade and the followup abortion ruling Planned Parenthood v. Casey, cornerstones of the progressive social agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the political and cultural war will continue apace. Still, December 2020 looks like an inflection point, when, as Breed put it in her speech, \u201cthe bull\u2014t\u201d got a reality check.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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