I honestly can’t see any white or asian conservative ever getting more than 35 percent of the vote there now. The city’s political base is now so racially polarized, that I think it will have to be someone who is black, probably a former military officer, and be a truly hardened person who truly leads without seeking all manner of fawning approval from the effete white toffs in SF.
Absent that, I fully expect the line of left wing idiots to continue until Oakland is the west coast version of Detroit. Detroit is another model city of racially polarized politics, complete with pandering white liberals compounding the situation, that shows what happens when the business base has utterly collapsed or fled.
That’s what I see in store for Oakland.