48 Hills: When SF Democrats start to sound like Trump
Many of San Francisco’s Democrats are increasingly using Trump-style language and tactics, especially since tech billionaires took over the local Democratic Party ahead of the 2024 election. Though San Francisco leaders pride themselves on not being Republicans, the distinction between them is growing dimmer.
While mainstream Democrats have long-embraced it, the left has been wary about tech since the first dot-com boom. Mainstream and corporate democrats fought hard for tax breaks to big tech, and stood in opposition to new taxes on the wealthiest and funding affordable housing. They joined the chorus of now-exposed corporate and Republican money to create the doom-loop, claiming that San Francisco was destroyed somehow by progressive policies, including “defunding the police,” which never even happened in San Francisco.