The thinking is of democrats in the country's most progressive city are tossing out their most progressive district attorney. That it's kind of game over for this kind of prosecutor everywhere, right? The thought was, if san francisco is rejecting its beacon of progressives, then the country must be. But in my reporting and in talking with these people, drawing that one to one calls of relationship, that progressive policies meant crime went up is just too simple of a co onion. And the reality is, as it often is in politics, more new ones, the more complicated.
This episode contains strong language.
This week, voters in San Francisco ousted Chesa Boudin, their progressive district attorney. The move was seen as a rejection of a class of prosecutors who are determined to overhaul the criminal justice system.
But what happened to Mr. Boudin can be seen as more the exception than the rule.
Guest: Astead W. Herndon, a national political reporter for The New York Times.
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