.LoriLightfoot just became the first Chicago mayor to lose reelection in 40 years, a sign Democrats were tired of her lax approach to crime. Chicago’s crime increase forced the mayoral race to focus intensely on public safety.
Over the past two years, Democrats who embraced a liberal criminal justice agenda at the city level have found themselves increasingly unwelcome among voters who once applauded their views.That shift could portend a broader reckoning within the Democratic Party over how to square its ascendant activist wing with the reality that liberal reforms have remade big city politics.
Lightfoot had pitched herself as more progressive than her Democratic opponents in that 2019 race, and she focused in particular on the need to reform the Chicago police to address what she described as its unequal treatment of black residents. Chicago’s crime increase forced the mayoral race to focus intensely on public safety, but it was far from the only recent blue city race to hinge almost exclusively on how Democratic candidates pledged to restore law and order.
Durkan dropped out of contention after criticism of her leadership mounted, crime continued to rise, and businesses fled the city.
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