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David Axelrod saw one unconscious man in Chicago. What he really saw was his party’s future.
THE MONSTER THEY MADE
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod walked past the Art Institute of Chicago during a heat emergency and found an elderly man, “probably homeless,” sprawled unconscious on the museum’s front steps.
“I asked a museum security guard about it and she said she had woken him 3 times and suggested he move into the shade and he refused each time,” Axelrod told his followers on X.
He continued, “I called 911 and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well I’m not going to send anyone.’”
“So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun,” Axelrod wrote, before wondering aloud whether “we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.”
Welcome to the city Democrats built.
But Axelrod’s post was not really about the homelessness crisis, or emergency responses during a heat wave, or the failures of blue city governance. It was a big red flag waved by one of the Democratic Party’s most high-profile strategists about the disastrous road they’re headed down.