To the Left, societal rot is like the weather. You can complain all you want, but there isn’t anything you can do about it. Nothing could be further from the truth, say Charles “Cully” Stimson, deputy director of, and Zack Smith, senior legal fellow at, the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

• Last week, Stimson and Smith posted a series of short videos from the heart of societal rot—San Francisco.
• The videos showcase the effects of the Left’s soft-on-crime and open-border policies on this once great city. They visit the soon-to-be-closed Macy’s, the pier where an illegal alien murdered Kate Steinle, and an open-air drug den.
• Stimson and Smith co-authored a book—“Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities”—that goes into great detail about the human tragedy resulting from these policies.
• “Societal rot is a choice,” they say.

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