Breed isn't extremist. In San Francisco politics, she's a tad right of center. Indeed, the Board of Supervisors "progressive" caucus replaced her as acting mayo

Breed isn't extremist. In San Francisco politics, she's a tad right of center. Indeed, the Board of Supervisors "progressive" caucus replaced her as acting mayor in early 2018 with Mark Farrell in a failed effort to torpedo her campaign for the coming mayoral election. Here's the very left supervisor Hillary Ronan describing Breed in 2018: "The same rich white men that steered the policies that have created the mess we are in today are the same people who are firmly behind the candidacy of London Breed." (https://beyondchron.org/sfs-twisted-racial-politics/ https://beyondchron.org/sfs-twisted-racial-politics/) Now, the progressive left is an extremely powerful force in the city, though not quite a majority. No mayor, whatever their political views, could get anything done without understanding how to placate that group. That's how politics works--you have to compromise to get anything done. Unfortunately, like Republicans nationally, local progressives have learned how to abuse that dynamic by using obstructionism and extreme rhetoric to pull the center of debate in their preferred direction. And that's how the city ends up with some of its more extreme policies and general paralysis.