The New National Narrative About San Francisco

The doom loop narrative has faded away, but media has been quick to misread the election in San Francisco

A year or so ago, there was a consensus that San Francisco was mired in a doom loop. Proponents of this view suggested that the economic damage from the Covid pandemic was something from which the city would never recover. Implicit in that perspective was that somehow progressives, rather than a global pandemic, were the root of the problem.

That doom lo…