You know, something which will help tame and cut back the overgrown jungle. Vote for jungle fever, and you will get jungle fever. It's time to put the torch to the kente cloth.
“I would prefer someone with name akin to something like ‘Charles Morton Sheldrake’, or ‘Rupert Geoffrey Sanderson-Spencer III’.”
Agreed. Anything but “Jumaane.” His mother should be charged with a felony for sticking him with that.
New York had a Mayor like that in the 1960s - John Vliet Lindsay. As WASPy blue-blood as the come. A Yale man and family friend of GHW Bush and pappy Prescott Bush
His predecessor (Robert Wagner) was another WASP, Yale-man and liberal (who converted to Catholicism in mid-life), who granted collective bargaining status to NYC workers, and who gifted Lindsay, on his first day in office, a Transit Workers strike which shut down transport in the whole the City.
So to your point - unfortunately, these people do not cut back on overgrown leftist jungles. They compromise so they can merely sit atop them.