No, what will kill these cities will be their tax base leaving. Working productive people who pay taxes will not live in a place where they have to continually look over their shoulder and run like cowards from trouble. They will move to more secure environments. This has happened to New York, Seattle, and now Portland. It is now currently happening to other big cities who won’t deal with the antifa/BLM problem. It’s happening in Houston as we speak. The taxpayers are leaving in droves and moving to the outer lying towns and communities. The liberal politicians who run these cities are killing them. And, these people will not be back.
My brother is CEO of a multi-national tech company. When covid started, he literally emptied a three story office building and converted an entire company of over 5,000 employees to work from home. Now that the lawlessness in the big city has started, he has no intentions of moving his operations back to the city. He can run the entire operation from a small office strip center out in podunkville. His employees can live where they want, and they are moving out of Houston as fast as they can.
It’s one thing to to turn your back on your constituents, but its quite another to turn your back on them and and then make it illegal to defend themselves.
Democrats depend on there being large numbers of welfare recipients who reliably vote Dem.
But what happens when a city loses enough taxpayers that it can no longer provide welfare?