The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics

An Article for the New Republic

San Francisco, as everybody knows, is the epicenter of American progressivism and has been since the 60s. They were here, they were queer, they were smoking dope in Haight-Ashbury flophouses and marching to end the war in Vietnam. In the subsequent decades, they went even further: they passed business-destroying regulations while simultaneously transfor…