WHAT COULD GO WRONG? San Francisco Tries to Square Progressivism with Housing Progress:

A policy designed to make it harder for newcomers, and for oldtimers who can’t afford rising rents and aren’t under untouchable rent control, has become part of the definition of being a “progressive” there.

But of course. As Fred Siegel wrote in 2014 history of the American left, The Revolt Against the Masses, “The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s.‘Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class,’” which has been the (mostly) unspoken credo of San Francisco leftists for at least the last quarter century or so.