Housing issues are just one reason of many. Why are there housing issues? Why do Democrat run cities so consistently have this problem in which they just flat out refuse to address the problem and instead allow the wealthy to protect their own interests and pull the ladder up after them? Murph has even talked about how this happens in the Bay Area and how he is complicit in it. What we you saying about being honest earlier?
I thought you guys were going to fix climate change with electric vehicle mandates? No new technology will come along in the next 50-75 years to offset it? Man won’t adapt? Insanity.
Like everyone, Musk spends his money where it will help his businesses. He has described himself as being center left most of his life until recently. People change their minds, especially in the face of increasingly radical movements that threaten our way of life.
Re: housing, the Bay Area is an example of how it has to be resolved at the state level; the "city" of SF is small - they can't really resolve their housing crisis without San Mateo and San Jose resolving their housing crisis. The San Francisco/Manhattan scenario is somewhat unique nationally, but the solution to having local government captured by vested interests is a regional/state one. This is one of the frustrations about Kathy Hochul recently getting in the way of congestion pricing - it's a small but promising tool to properly price road use of dense urban areas and return the funds to public transportation, and it got vetoed, largely by commuters who like the status quo. Even if New York had a functional mayor right now, they're limited what they can actually do themselves. This goes double for a place like Oakland, which needs major redevelopment with infrastructure investment, and has no bargaining power absent regional/state subsidizing.
But Manhattan and SF are fairly unique. When you say "Democrat-run cities," my primary personal example is of course Chicago, a city where the predominantly conservative regional population that benefits mightily from having a world-class economic center and tourist destination within a short drive throws an absolute fit when it's asked to pay its fair share of the liabilities incurred in supporting a world-class economic center and tourist destination and in same cases moves across the state line to avoid doing so, which is a problem that would require, again, a state or federal level solution.
I'd also note that major housing crises only show up in areas where people really want to live. It's not an accident that the list is predominantly places like Seattle, SF, LA, Boston, NYC, DC, etc. The red state exceptions would be places like Austin, Nashville, or the research triangle, which all currently have Democrat mayors and have invested heavily in cultural or business environments appealing to young people. To some extent scolding "Democrat-run cities" for having housing shortages is castigating them for being interesting, desirable places to live with thriving economies, which should raise the question as to what's stopping "Republican-run cities" from being big deals.
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