{"id":2268672,"date":"2024-06-15T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-nyt-columnist-gives-in-calls-to-stop-woke-infected-leftism-plaguing-west-coast\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:13:01","slug":"leftist-nyt-columnist-gives-in-calls-to-stop-woke-infected-leftism-plaguing-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-nyt-columnist-gives-in-calls-to-stop-woke-infected-leftism-plaguing-west-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist NYT Columnist Concedes, Urges Halt to Woke &#8216;Infected&#8217; Leftism on West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftist-nyt-columnist-gives-in-calls-to-stop-woke-infected-leftism-plaguing-west-coast%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2268672&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nicholas Kristol, \u200da former candidate for Oregon governor,\u200b critiqued the brand of \u2064liberalism prevalent on \u2063the West Coast \u2064in a recent column. Highlighting contradictions between stated liberal values and actual\u200d outcomes, Kristol\u2062 pointed out issues such as declaring &#8220;housing is a human right&#8221; while failing to sufficiently address homelessness. Despite the region&#8217;s progressive intentions, Kristol argues \u2063that \u2063there is\u200b a lack of effective oversight and outcomes, exemplifying this by contrasting the high rates of unsheltered homelessness in California and Oregon \u200dwith lower rates in Northeastern states like Vermont, New York, and Maine. He notes the\u200d difference in educational outcomes \u2062between the West Coast and places \u200dlike Massachusetts, which boasts\u2064 high-quality public schools. Kristol criticizes West Coast liberalism as being more focused on ideological purity and performative actions rather than substantive results, using the example of Oregon investing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornell-university-offering-baskets-of-free-mxnstrual-products-in-mens-restrooms\/\" title=\"Cornell University Offering Baskets of Free \u2018Mxnstrual\u2019 Products in Men\u2019s Restrooms\">free menstrual products<\/a> in boys&#8217; bathrooms from \u2063kindergarten instead\u200d of addressing more pressing educational \u200bneeds. Local Democratic Representative Earl \u200cBlumenauer echoes this sentiment, observing a\u200d focus on\u200d ideology rather than practical results in governance, \u2063particularly \u2062in the Portland area.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/dcnf\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/dcnf\/%20\"><span>Katelynn Richardson<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 15, 2024 at 1:26pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-times-torches-biden-troubling-media-strategy-official-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> columnist Nicholas Kristof argued Saturday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/progressive-utopia-san-francisco-program-buys-alcohol-homeless-alcoholics-improve-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Coast\u2019s version of liberalism<\/a> just isn\u2019t working, urging liberals to \u201cface the painful fact that something has gone badly wrong where we\u2019re in charge, from San Diego to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/veteran-seattle-cop-signs-off-23-years-instead-routine-exit-form-files-brutal-15-page-resignation-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Coast liberals accept a \u201cyawning gulf between our values and our outcomes,\u201d Kristof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/15\/opinion\/progressives-california-portland.html\">observed<\/a> in his column, embracing contradictions like declaring \u201chousing is a human right\u201d while failing to actually \u201cget people housed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kristof, who launched a bid to run for Oregon governor in 2022 but was found not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/17\/us\/kristof-oregon-governor.html#:~:text=oregon%2Dgovernor.html-,Nicholas%20Kristof%20Can't%20Run%20for%20Governor%20in%20Oregon%20After,state's%20three%2Dyear%20residency%20requirement.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meet<\/a> the three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-targeting-ex-trump-officials-house-run-becomes-law-but-theres-a-major-catch\/\" title=\"Bill Targeting Ex-Trump Official\u2019s House Run Becomes Law. But There\u2019s A Major Catch\">-year residency requirement<\/a> to appear on the ballot, believes the problem is not liberalism itself, but the West Coast\u2019s brand of liberalism that is \u201cinfected with an ideological purity that is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an Oregonian who bores people at cocktail parties by singing the praises of the West, but the truth is that too often we offer a version of progressivism that doesn\u2019t result in progress,\u201d he wrote, pointing to disparities between liberal cities on the West Coast and East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two states with the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness are California and Oregon. The three states with the lowest rates of unsheltered homelessness are all blue ones in the Northeast: Vermont, New York and Maine,\u201d he continued. \u201cLiberal Massachusetts has some of the finest public schools in the country, while liberal Washington and Oregon have below-average high school graduation rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nicholas Kristof:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe West Coast\u2019s central problem is not so much that it\u2019s unserious as that it\u2019s infected with an ideological purity that is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uGrKLPCvWH\">pic.twitter.com\/uGrKLPCvWH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfmcguire79\/status\/1801971318360781022?\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He critiqued West Coast liberals\u2019 tendency to be \u201cperformative rather than substantive,\u201d citing Oregon\u2019s decision to funnel education dollars into putting free tampons in the boys <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/05\/22\/blue-state-school-boys-vandalizing-bathrooms-menstrual-products\/\">bathrooms<\/a> beginning in kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inability of progressives, particularly in the Portland metro area, to deal with the nitty-gritty of governing and to get something done is just staggering,\u201d Democratic Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer, whose district includes most of Portland, told the NYT.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker added: \u201cPeople are much more interested in ideology than in actual results.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Are California, Oregon, and Washington voters getting exactly what they deserve?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kristof suggested the problem may be connected to the lack of political competition on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps on the West Coast we have ideological purity because there isn\u2019t much political competition,\u201d he wrote. \u201cRepublicans are irrelevant in much of the Far West, so they can\u2019t hold Democrats\u2019 feet to the fire \u2014 leading Democrats in turn to wander unchecked farther to the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, blue states had the highest rates of homelessness, with Washington, D.C., New York, Vermont and Oregon topping the list, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/01\/04\/blue-states-highest-homelessness-rates-2023\/\">according<\/a> to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).<\/p>\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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