California Democrats hastily cleaned up San Francisco last week ahead of the upcoming state visit between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged cleanup efforts will continue even after the conference closes.
For years, deteriorating health and safety conditions in California's fourth-largest city have made San Francisco an emblem of American decline.
Instead of implementing aggressive efforts to clean up, as residents saw last week ahead of visits from foreign leaders, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors prioritized leftist activism.
In March, San Francisco leadership moved forward with a plan to hand out slavery reparations for $5 million per person to people who never were slaves, paid for by residents who never owned slaves.
In August, The Wall Street Journal published a feature on San Francisco's downward spiral, openly wondering in the headline, "Can San Francisco Save Itself From the Doom Loop?" "Downtown San Francisco now trails nearly every other major urban center in economic health," the paper reported.
"Retailers like Nordstrom and Banana Republic have announced in the past few months that they are closing their downtown San Francisco stores. The owner of the city's biggest mall, located downtown, is handing it back to the lender rather than continue to make debt payments."
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