The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities, by Stephen Moore

By Stephen Moore, The Stream, April 12, 2023

Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. His latest book is Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy. 

Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.

That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t finish in one of the top two spots. 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 h***.

Chicagoans Elected a Deformer, Not a Reformer …

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