kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Trump appealing to a homeless crackdown

1) Shows his mind is still very firmly in the 70s-80s-90s Manhattan arc

2) Is not bad wedging in the “blue” cities where there’s definite tension in the limousine liberal/minority/young upstart D coalitions, over housing, over culture, over policing.

In Portland there’s a brewing conflict over “more traffic cops to realize our Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan” (coalition being bicyclist hipsters and outer-city dwellers with few options) and “no, we want to minimize police contact” (leftists and the woke)

3) illustrates that police unions are an alternate chain of command that the federal government can articulate with when blue-appointed formal leadership demurs

Really,

• Noticing and exploiting this wedge
• Classifying SF homelessness as an environmental pollution threat to get leverage on
• Simply thinking to keep Rudy Giuliani busy working on the stuff he was actually popular and successful for

Are all strikingly more competent than I’d come to expect from a Trump policy initiative, maybe the administration’s finally got its sea legs