CHICAGO IS WHAT DEMOCRATS DO.

The White Sox are still in the baseball playoffs, and the Marathon took place on a rather hot day.  Otherwise, though, it was just another mostly peaceful weekend.

John Kass is doing yeoman service in the absence of Second City Cop.

What has happened to Chicago? Here’s what happened:

The Democrats happened.

The George Floyd riots happened. Democrats wanted their voters whipped to a frenzy in 2020, and got what they wanted. [Lori] Lightfoot and other liberal black mayors across the country stood back as their administrations, and the rule of law in their cities, were devoured by BLM and other elements of the hard Jacobin left that now rules the Democrat Party, with Biden as its empty, titular, wobbling head.

Democrats let the Floyd protests drive chaos. Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker, our very own Gov. Commodious Maximus, didn’t want the National Guard in the city at first. They were worried about the optics, they wanted the left wing good and angry, and Donald Trump out of the White House. Chicago has never recovered.

Police were demonized, assaulted and seriously injured. The sense of lawlessness in urban America grew. And unlike the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, most of the violent in Chicago and other Democratic urban centers were excused. The BLM rioters were not condemned as terrorists and hunted down. Instead, there was a deal:

The deal was the Democrats would buy off the left with that $3.5 trillion Biden/Pelosi spending spree (or is it really $6 trillion?) — the neo-Marxist fantasy that is now failing in Washington.

Federal bailout money came to the cities, and (no surprise) they spent it without imposing structural controls on public-worker pensions and other aspects of bloated government that sucks the life out of taxpayers. And through all of this, the criminal-justice system was failing.

At least [states attorney Kim] Foxx made good on her leftist rhetoric. She dropped more felony murder cases than her predecessor, and [George] Soros got what he paid for.

Foxx also stopped prosecuting shoplifting cases, and as a result, gangs of boosters hit high-end stores, adding to the general feeling that the city succumbed to lawlessness.

Mr Kass concludes, "There is no Republican Party here to challenge Foxx or her protector, Democrat boss Toni Preckwinkle. This is a Democratic city in a Democratic-run county in a Democratic state, with the Democrat Big Boy governor high up on his hill. Many who’d vote against them have already gone."  I lay some of that off on Republicans or libertarian-minded partisans who don't compete in Chicago, or in much of Illinois.  In addition, dear reader, consider the possibility that Chicago's Democrat voters are voting for precisely the chaos, and the best thing to do is to leave them to marinate in it.