I don’t live in SF, so I can’t speak to their public policy effectiveness (or their public policy in general, to be honest). Would you have citations you could link to where I could familiarize myself with its failings and how it relates to “leftist”/progressive policies? I’d rather not get too much into it here for fear of attracting a thread detachment.
> high taxes, inane regulations, petty nanny-state authoritarianism, tolerance for rising lawlessness and disorder on its streets in the name of "compassion"