Was.
Last month was the final chance to turn things around, and they (voters) failed.
Miserably.
We'll have to see not what Brandon SAYS, but what he DOES.
My understanding is that Lightfoot got tossed in large part due to crime. Obviously the woke theory that if we sing Kum By Yah, read poetry to the gangsters, and ask them to stop doing bad things they'll become productive citizens doesn't work.
That said, this isn't new. I visited New York in the spring of 1994. That was pretty much the height of NYC crime and I thought it was a crap hole and planned NEVER to go back.
Crime got so bad in NYC that the overwhelmingly Democratic voters elected Republican Rudy Guilliani Mayor twice. Then they elected Bloomberg who more-or-less maintained Guilliani's crime policies* three times.
My (now) wife wanted me to take her to the Macy's Parade so I did, in 2015. I was absolutely astounded at the massive change in the ~20 years between my visits. NYC circa 2015 was reasonably crime free and very much a livable city.
Many of the people around Brandon are hopeless. They are true believers in the worst extremes of wokeism. I think it is too early to tell where Brandon will shake out.
As a politician he *SHOULD* realize that the crime issue that got him into the Mayor's office in 2023 could just as easily get him out of the Mayor's office in 2027.
There is another political factor at play here. I think that Lightfoot's demise shows that, even in Chicago, Brandon's biggest vulnerability is to his right, not his left. If he talks a somewhat woke walk while walking a more reality-based walk he'll be nearly invincible.
*Bloomberg started out as, at least nominally, a Republican and even after he dropped that ruse he remained more-or-less true to Guilliani's crime policies until he had to repudiate things like stop and frisk to have a prayer in the Democratic Presidential Primary.