Defining the Right in San Francisco

The progressive versus moderate frame for undestanding politics in San Francisco is unhelpful and misleading.

For too long journalists, and many political insiders, have sought to explain San Francisco politics as an internecine struggle between progressives and moderates all of whom are left of center. This approach is extremely unhelpful. It does not so much shed more heat than light on the issue, as it casts an impenetrable fog over any real understanding of…