Andrew Sharp: “Pratt’s political talent is a big and still-underappreciated story here, but the story of his rise is obviously indivisible from that of the Democratic establishment’s decline. Watching this election unfold over the past several weeks, for all Pratt’s success, I’ve been equally struck by the thought that everything that makes Pratt politically viable used to be specialties of the Democratic Party. Boundless energy, good humor, good-looking and telegenic, occasionally stupid but generally likable, embracing technology, targeting opponents as corrupt and out of touch—that is where Dems lived! And that is becoming less true by the day.”
“Next to the 42 year-old Pratt in L.A., there is the 72 year-old Bass, an incumbent mayor endorsed by Kamala Harris who barely made a dent in the crime and homelessness crisis during her first term, infamously boarded a plane to Ghana during the early stages of the worst wildfires in L.A. history, and worked after the fact to obscure the city’s failures.”
