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This is part of the basis for voting for active Chaos. It means new ‘discoveries’ of beneficial policies or bad policies. Eg RFK is probably putting a floor on vax resistance. And Trump is probably showing parts of ICE work and what do not. Later, saner, admins can do it better
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Dems just need soldier legislators in swing districts who simply salute and vote and get ready to take the hit for the good of the cause.
Wash Sq Park was once a street w/ parking spaces & there was talk of expanding the roads through it before activists pushed for the opposite & made it car-free.
Now you’d have riots if you tried to open it up to cars again.
Just do good stuff & the public will come around.
I am rapidly becoming a fan of Robert Moses's approach of "It's very hard to tear down a bridge once it's up" – visible policy in action wins support in a way that the abstract debate just can't.
Specific prediction on the back of this: the Sunset Dunes park is here to stay.
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Do it early in your term too, so you can either change tack if it’s off the mark or it’s unimpeachably successful by the time the next cycle comes around
Seems to be in conflict with your belief we should moderate on everything to win like 1% of the vote right?
Social media and the “discourse-ification” of every issue in society these days has really made people forget that you can persuade. Like, good outcomes just kinda universally persuade people and it’s not rocket science
I support congestion pricing and mass deportations because I support good policies.
If it would have been terrible that blue line would have went down, probably much more dramatically
That requires leadership.
We appear to have.... something else in this country.
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Congestion prices are one of the very few price controls that do actually works, if not the only.
The problem is they will never ever reward you for it come time for elections
Janett Sadik-Khan’s most poignant take was sometimes you just got to do things and then let people react.
Like you just got to blow through the neighborhood reviews.
No, this often doesn’t work. For example, it’s been almost a century since international trade started a massive expansion and somehow the idiots who think it’s bad are still a majority. And there are countless cases like that one.
This is bad policy and a bad poll. Drivers already pay taxes to drive on those roads. Enough of the totalitarian carphobic agenda.
Correct take. Most American cities should use this exact approach. Good governance is noticeable over time.
