When London Breed was elected Mayor of San Francisco, every article I could find about it included some version of the phrase, “San Francisco’s first black African-American woman mayor.” Yeah, but will she be any good? If you look at the cities that are failing most in this country, it’s an easy exercise to look at what political philosophy has been used to address the city’s problems and how have those solutions performed? Detroit, the poster child of urban failure, has been run by the same political ideology for the past 60 years. It’s the poorest big city in…

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