Overall, I really appreciated this article for demonstrating a fairly straightforward and grounded assessment. ‘Adams is a bad mayor because the job requires you to fix problems through administrating complex programs. He does not seem aware of how to do that at all. Here are examples of problems and how prior mayors addressed them. Here are his. Here is a basic context of the media environment he has faced.’

As a socialist, I was never enthusiastic about Adams because he rode into office on a platform of “Elect me and I’ll stop socialists from socializing New York”, but I live in California, so I don’t care that much. I just want people to have safe, affordable neighborhoods. So I’m more disappointed than anything that he’s been so feckless.

I’m curious to see how Karen Bass performs as mayor of Los Angeles. She’s no Che Guevara, but I get the sense she’s drawing from a deeper toolbox than “pay police” and “blame leftists”. I think (and hope) she might be at least modestly successful because she’s a serious and clear-eyed person. She doesn’t share my precise politics, but she doesn’t seem so obsessed with political identity the way that Erik Adams or London Breed do, and she and I definitely agree on one thing: there is no issue more important to the people she serves than housing, and there are no excuses or diversions that will get her another term if these situations don’t materially improve soon.

Both sides in regards to what? I’m pretty sure he’s firmly aligned with the Democrats against the Republicans and the left wing of the Dems against the right wing.