realizing in my suburbs-of-Philadelphia upbringing the politics were basically about "at all costs resist '70s-liberatory stuff,...
realizing in my suburbs-of-Philadelphia upbringing the politics were basically about “at all costs resist ‘70s-liberatory stuff, especially not holding the line against the blacks, that’s what brought the city down” and it’s gonna be interesting the extent to which that has and has not worn off
I mean the pushback on Larry Krasner shows that ethic still has significant purchase in the institutions of the city itself, though the fact he was elected in the first place shows its limits