Nostalgia for George Gascón at the Los Angeles Times

<![CDATA[In the 2020 race for Los Angeles County district attorney, George Gascón, flush with $2.25 million in cash from George Soros and millions more from other well-heeled, progressive donors, defeated incumbent Jackie Lacey, taking advantage of the anti-police hysteria that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, when an astonishing number of people came to adopt the magical thinking that criminals would be less inclined to mischief if we would but stop treating them like criminals.]]>