Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris made the pitch that her economic policies will benefit the middle class more than Donald Trump’s. But in San Francisco, where she has been a power player for decades as a district attorney, state attorney general and finally as a senator, it is the middle class itself most hurt by the city’s crippling decline at the hands of Democrats.
“There are a lot of cheap options,” Dave, who moved here from back east three years ago and is in advertising, told me at lunch, “and of course there are Michelin star restaurants on the high end, but not much in between.”