THE VOTER REVOLT AND GEORGETOWN'S PROGRESSIVE ORTHODOXY

California’s voter revolt and a professor quits

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New York Post 

June 6, 2022

 

 

Homeless encampments, like this one along a street in downtown Los Angeles has voters upset

 

Urban beat: The Voter Revolt

“Voters have had enough of ‘progressive’ leaders who are presiding over spiraling violence and crime,” declares Spiked’s Joel Kotkin. The “revolt brewing” sees a big test Tuesday in Los Angeles’ mayoral primary, which will likely “lead to a head-to-head between moderate billionaire developer Rick Caruso and progressive congressperson Karen Bass, once considered a potential vice-president for Joe Biden.” Progressive San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin faces a recall vote the same day. Disgust at how cities have become “centers for homelessness, open drug markets and incubators of all sorts of diseases” has brought the “rise of moderate opposition to progressivism, in the form of Rick Caruso, Eric Adams and others,” providing “hope that the urban core can reinvent itself as a viable place for new investment and families.”

 

Prof: Why I Quit Georgetown

                              Law professorIlya Shapiro

 

Soon after “a four-month investigation into a tweet” saw him reinstated at Georgetown University Law, Ilya Shapiro quit, he explains in The Wall Street Journal, as “remaining in my job was untenable” since the school’s diversity office “set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy,” because school policy only cares if people are “offended, or claim to have been,” by some remark. As he notes, that would land him in trouble if “I opine that the Constitution bans racial preferences” or even assign a student to oppose the argument that “a designer can be compelled to create a website for a same-sex wedding.” In short, “It is the Georgetown administrators who have created a hostile work environment for me” — and effectively repealed the school’s free-speech policy.