San Francisco – It was an incredible day for Democrats, a time of counting and self-criticism as they tried to understand why they lost Congress and the White House and worked hard to find their way out of political purgatory.
The exam even stretched to San Francisco, a place known for its liberalism and smugness, and began an inner reflection even before Trump resumed the White House.
In 2022, voters abandoned three Uber– Progressive members of the school board seem to be targeting more intentional signs, such as renaming the public schools to remove Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere than students’ achievements. A few months later, District Attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled in response to his bleeding approach to public safety.
Continuously swiftly, November voters elected a new political comer, Daniel Lurie as mayor and presented him to the Himpatico committee of the Baroque town hall in San Francisco. emotions.
Similarly, the city’s Democratic Party, not exactly pro-Maga choir, has come close to the middle and elected a leader who sees Trump’s election and stands in this blue fortress In the fortress, it was one of the moment when the red light flashed and the sirens was bragging.
“One of the problems with the Democratic Party at the moment is that most party politics, especially at the local level, is largely manifest and has nothing to do with the daily life of workers.” “And I think we’re seeing strong opposition across the country right now.”
San Francisco will not become the Hillier version of Kansas, nor will it become the Pacific view of Alabama. Trump won 6,000 votes here in November than his vote four years ago and increased his support by 2.5%. Still, he lost to Kamala Harris, the city’s former district attorney, for nearly 65 points.
Tao’s politics should also be based on a certain perspective. She checked all the Democratic boxes – pro-select, anti-Trump, etc. – laughed and joked, and in many places she was called a Communist. But by San Francisco standards, Tung is a centrist, and the city’s politics sways between the left and right, which obviously waves her direction.
She said during lunch in the city’s missionary district that people “can call me anything they want”. “I think the government should work for people, and at the local level there are some real basic things that shouldn’t be controversial, right? Every community deserves good public schools. They deserve safe streets, clean sidewalks. It is not over-bureaucratic to be effective government…it is not about comparing huge special interests with daily life.”
Tung, 50, is the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. She grew up in Arcadia, Southern California, and moved to the Bay Area, where she spent most of her time as a prosecutor at the time. Her work at the San Francisco DA office focuses on hate crimes.
Tung recently began her political activism after Trump’s frustrated victory in 2016. On her trip to Washington, she plans to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s historical elections as the first female president of the United States. Instead, she cried at the National Portrait Gallery, sitting before the women who had served in the Supreme Court.
A few weeks later, Tung returned to the capital, paraded together on the eve of Trump’s first inauguration with Bullhorn. At home, she signed with one of San Francisco’s many democratic clubs, doubling her political engagement. Eventually, though, Tung became alienated, feeling marginalized not because she was a female or Asian American, but because other Democrats didn’t accept her more moderation.
In 2019, she failed as a district attorney and lost her pudding. The following year, the Supervisory Board nominated the Police Commission for her as being seen as being too pro-police in the climate following the murder of George Floyd.
However, slowly, the political trend has also changed. By 2022, the leadership of the San Francisco Democratic Party seems to be out of touch. In other moves, the party opposed the school committee recalled that 70% of voters supported the removal of Boudin, who conveniently served. In 2024, Tung led a centrist slate that controlled the party.
During lunch at her favorite Indian-Pakistani restaurant, she described her goal from now until the end of April 2028. Weapon cross. His brows frowned.
Tung advises that it is important to get rid of abstraction and indulgence and solve problems that touch on voters’ daily lives.
Tung cites a resolution that a few years ago local political parties adopted the use of child labour in the African chocolate trade. A terrible thing, yes. But, she wondered why Democrats in San Francisco devoted their time to this issue? “It makes people think you lose contact,” Tung said. “Why is there something about child labour in another country, not about how we treat children here?”
This may be reductive, but the point is good. If anything was shown in the last election, high-thinking principles, such as adhering to democratic norms, are less important to many voters than the cost of gasoline and groceries.
Don said that to split a portion of rice and lentils, it takes “actually showing people our value, like we do in the community. … Are you helping feed people? You’re at Helping others dress? Are you helping to connect people to services? Are you helping people cut down the traditional tape festival in the town hall?”
Inevitably, the conversation turned to Trump and feared that the country was working to enter a dictatorship.
Yes, Tung said party leaders like her can and should speak out and help spark democracy’s anger. There are information and resources that can be shared with individuals and groups such as immigration, which may be targeted with punitive policies. “Can we support the people affected? Yes, we can.” “Can we provide forums for those who want to speak out? Yes, you can do that, too.”
Button said the real resistance must come from elected officials, members of Congress, lawyers and others fighting the Trump administration in court.
She didn’t say that, but the reality is that if Democrats really want to stop Trump’s surplus and his bulldozing of federal plans, they will have to regain some level of power in Washington.
And there is a lot of work to be done.
