On homelessness and crime, modern-day progressives make 20th-century communists look like grownups

Story by Dain Fitzgerald, Washington Examiner

One irony of leftism in the 21st century is that it makes “Big Leftism” of the prior century, the Cold War titans of Soviet Russia, China, and junior partners, such as Cuba, look like bastions of conservative common sense on certain matters, namely, law and order.

These countries’ war on what they called “parasitism,” or more straightforwardly “vagrancy,” was couched in terms of civic pride and national purpose that is anathema to the modern American liberal.

When California‘s Sacramento City Hall is considered a refuge for the homeless and not a special site of political importance that ought to be especially shielded from dilapidation and misuse, something has gone awry in the nexus between state and society.

Zohran Mamdani, the youthful likely next mayor of New York City, wants to make housing a human right. Not unlike the charters of the aforementioned governments, but also unlike them, he deftly avoids the stick portions of the carrot-and-stick playbook. There is seemingly no selfish violation of community norms of civilized behavior that can’t be excused by appeals to a lack of investment in tackling “root causes” of said behavior. Mamdani’s plan to abolish fares for public transportation might be excusable, if not economically advisable, if a strict law-and-order approach to antisocial behavior on the A Train is enforced.

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