November 5 wasn’t just a great night for America – it was a great night for public policy.
L.A. voters, sick of the enormous damage DA George Gascón (once a Soros darling who has now been abandoned by his benefactor) has done to their city, have handed him a crushing defeat.
Gascon eliminated cash bail and effectively legalized many low-level crimes, causing an 8% crime spike nationwide between 2019 and 2023, and an exodus of experienced prosecutors.
Now he met his deserved fate and good advice. We welcome winner Nathan Hochman’s efforts to (in his words) “make crimes illegal again.”
And it’s not just Los Angeles.
Monstrous Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price, a racing hostel star who went soft on the brutal killers of an Asian toddler And organized training sessions in which crime victims are attacked because they are white are also unemployed.
Voters in Oakland, tired of living in fear, launched a recall campaign; it passed on Wednesday with almost 65% of the vote.
Cali’s crime-fighting isn’t limited to rough cities, either.
More than 70% of voters statewide just passed Proposition 36, a rollback of the criminal justice “reforms” that Cali saw implemented in 2014 as Prop 47. (Gascón co-authored 47; as always, the Golden State a pioneer of bad policy.)
This is great news for everyday Americans who are being punished by the crime waves unleashed by the left and which have increased after the 2020 riots.
But it’s just a start: far too many Soros picks remain in power.
Like Philly District Attorney Larry Krasner, who compares police to organized criminals and oversees record murders – but took action against Elon Musk over his voter registration lottery.
Or Austin, where Soros favorite Jose Garza has also overseen record murders but just won re-election.
But the results from California show that, with time, patience and effort, these people can be beaten.
For the sake of the average American around the world, they must are.
