San Francisco turned 'from paradise to purgatory': Victor Davis Hanson
Fox News
Walgreens announced it is closing 5 stores in San Francisco amid widespread mass thefts; Victor Davis Hanson reacts.
"I think Joe Biden showed us it is about 9 months," Hanson said, pointing to $5 per gallon gas in his home state of California, and an announcement that Walgreens will close 5 stores in the city of San Francisco amid widespread theft following passage of a new law that slackens penalties for larceny under $900.
"With critical legal theory; that the law is not based on innate morality – theft is theft and violence is a construct – then you get looting at Walgreens and poor people can’t fill up prescriptions -- or you can’t drive your car to San Francisco because the window will be bashed in, $900 conveniently below the $1,000 felony limit will be stolen, then people won’t go to San Francisco," the Fresno-area native said.
Host Jesse Watters said Democratic Mayor London Breed effectively "tied the hands of the cops" with soft-on-crime policies, and pointed to Walgreens' landmark departure.