DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Give some credit to Lori Lightfoot. She’s really good at wrecking things.

When America’s most Innsmouth-ian politician took over Chicago in spring 2019 (presumably for lack of any other volunteers), it was hard to imagine screwing up the city worse than it already was. The city was already losing population. It already had the most murders of any US city and a top-30 violent crime rate overall.

But Lightfoot rose to the challenge and then some. She inherited a city with 563 murders the year before she took office. In the 365 days between George Floyd’s death and the one-year anniversary of his demise, the city clocked more than 800, including 105 in a single month and 18 in a single day. When hundreds of city buildings were looted in the nation’s worth rioting outside Minneapolis, Lightfoot’s response to an upset alderman was ‘No offense — fuck you.’ When the alderman somebody leaked the audio to the public, Lightfoot accused him of breaking the law, but it turned out the one breaking the law was Lightfoot herself by holding secret conference calls with the city council.

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