Last Saturday I wrote about Nicholas Kristof’s column for the NY Times arguing that President Biden was right to try to do more to control the border. What I found interesting about it was that a relatively progressive writer was suddenly opening his eyes to a host of problems that come with unregulated (or poorly regulated) immigration. He was essentially saying that Republicans have a point.
Today, Kristof is back with another surprising column arguing that Republicans have a point about the West Coast. Kristof takes pains to argue that the problem isn’t Democrats per se. There are states on the East Coast, he argues, where Democratic leadership produces some good results. But things are different on the West Coast and the question is why?
“The inability of progressives, particularly in the Portland metro area, to deal with the nitty-gritty of governing and to get something done…
