That screeching noise you hear is not just the sound of Democrats wailing over their collapsing popular support. It is also the squeal of their tires as they race away from their anti-law-and-order policies in hope of avoiding an electoral smash against reality. They’ve suddenly realized that — surprise! — there aren’t as many voters for murder and industrial-scale smash-and-grab thievery as there are for combating those increasingly prevalent crimes.

The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood has reported that liberals are starting to embrace gun ownership and are backing measures to combat crime.

In an astonishing reversal, San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, launched emergency police intervention in the city’s crime-wrecked Tenderloin district . This is the woman who cut police and sheriff budgets by $120 million to pander to 2020’s Black Lives Matter rioters. The decision brought a rain of ruin down on her metropolis, and now even its left-liberal residents have had enough.

Breed’s rhetoric has, if anything, changed even more dramatically than her policies. Announcing a 180-degree turnaround, she said, “It’s time to rein in criminals who are destroying our city. … And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies, and less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city.”

Can other Democrats do the same and salvage the next ..........