[enoreyes]

It feels a bit misleading to immediately attack Boudin for his work in Venezuela. He was a translator there between undergrad and law school. His leftist background is certainly quite interesting but I felt that the early attempt to attack his character by associating him with Chavez comes across as a bit of a stretch that I think hurts the credibility of the author.

[refurb]

You can read the article he wrote called "Chavez for Life"

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/chavez-life/

[bosswipe]

Yea that was my hint that this is just an ideological rant.

[trowawee]

I was curious what the City Journal was, so I looked it and the Manhattan Institute up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy.... Worthwhile reading for anyone wondering where the original piece is coming from.

Personally, looking over their history, I think their interest in publishing a piece like this is likely rooted in ideological issues rather than actually looking at anything meaningful. (I also think they've been wrong about...very nearly everything they've ever offered a position on, so I'm skeptical about this claim that SF is on the brink of tipping over into a Mad Max set.)

[refurb]

Care to list everything they take a position on and been wrong about?

That's quite a claim.