Earlier this month, President Biden held a reelection campaign rally in San Francisco. For a campaign that has already suffered numerous gaffes and scandals, and will likely suffer more, the choice of locale sent a powerful message. As a recent visit revealed to me, the City by the Bay is absolutely as bad as everyone says.

The downtown area, stretching down historic Market Street from the City Hall to bayside Embarcadero, is gutted, with 47% of businesses in the city having closed their doors since 2020. There and in the surrounding neighborhoods, commercial storefronts are almost all empty except for the occasional liquor store. …

“We saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin, we saw people smoking crack cocaine,” said Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on a recent visit, “the wreckage is really sad to see.”

Indeed it is, but unfortunately San Francisco’s atomizing and impoverishing anarcho-tyranny is how the President of the United States and almost anyone of importance in his political party would prefer for you to live.

[San Francisco has been in the grip of progressive activists for decades, even longer than California as a whole has been. This is the end-game of their policies — utter nihilism. And Joe Biden apparently approves. — Ed]