I'm not sure this mob is as smart as you think they are. Beyond a bit of lip service to defunding the police they completely failed to advance, fund, identify, or implement any meaningful programs to lead to a reduction in violence. Thereby, allowing themselves to be completely outmaneuvered by the right-wing police Union and setting back the cause of police reform a great deal.

The trickle-down approach to affordable housing means an explosion of unregulated gentrification and luxury apartment development. The fallacy of this approach is clearly illustrated by a parallel explosion of homelessness. How is it that we are simultaneously advancing gentrification and urban blight?

Does the upper harbor terminal qualify as a development boondoggle yet? Or is there some kind of statute of limitations on this that hasn't kicked in yet?

These council members use the language of progressive politics to advance an agenda that primarily benefits only the city bureaucracy and corporate development interests. Decades of prosperity squandered on bike lanes, stadiums, and luxury development very little of which actually benefits the majority of the residents of Minneapolis.