The idea that California's primary showed a state convulsed with reactionary tough-on-crime sentiment is an overreaction to what actually happened. ed_kilgore writes
If this was a law-and-order primary, why did law-and-order candidate for attorney general Anne Marie Schubert bomb? Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP/Shutterstock The big headlines from yesterday’s California primary were unsurprisingly driven by high-profile contests in the state’s two most prominent cities — San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The idea that the primary showed a state convulsed with reactionary tough-on-crime sentiment is an overreaction to what actually happened on June 7. Boudin was happily tossed over the side by much of San Francisco’s Democratic political establishment — who regarded him as an embarrassing and not terribly competent outlier, not a national symbol of criminal-justice reform . And while Caruso’s emergence as a freshly minted Democrat running a viable race for mayor of L.A.
In general, the overall California returns belie the idea that it was some sort of conservative-backlash election. The top-performing statewide Republican candidate, Lanhee Chen , made the general-election contest for state controller. But he did well mostly because he faced four viable Democrats and, at present, is only winning 37 percent of the vote.
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