This week, Lori Lightfoot became the first incumbent mayor of Chicago to lose a re-election bid in several decades. But as it turns out she might have been a victim of increasingly ungovernable cities:

Yep, that’s a real take in The Atlantic:

All those cities have something in common, but that can’t possibly be the problem:

The dots aren’t going to be connected despite the fact that there are only two of them.

As for Lightfoot maybe they should consider the possibility that she was just a lousy mayor with policies that made Chicago more dangerous.

Another problem that’s making some mayors look bad is that crime is pouncing:

But more than anything else, crime is weighing mayors down. Crime is not, despite what some politicians might want you to believe, a uniquely urban problem. When violent crime surged around the nation starting in summer 2020, it surged in rural areas, too. But cities get more media attention, and the sheer numbers are staggering: The yearly total of murders in Chicago dropped by more than 100 in 2022—to a horrifying 695. New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the nation.

Maybe some mayors’ (and prog DAs) policies are making crime worse. What’s being “weighed down” is citizens’ ability to live in some cities without being a victim of violent criminals.

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Chicago is MAGA country! Lori Lightfoot blames loss on racism & gender and we can’t stop laughing.

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