The article focuses only on DC and takes pains to draw attention to how it's not associated with the shutdown, but in a way this is all misdirection (or, on the outside, abject ignorance. The phenomenon of progressives making deserts of cities they run is widespread and devastating.

All the way on the opposite coast, and having nothing whatsoever to do with the shutdown, San Francisco is one such wasteland. A guy has even posted a series of startling first-person videos from SF and surrounding cities with such titles as: "every store is CLOSED on van ness San Francisco", "every restaurant is CLOSED in San Francisco", and "every bank is CLOSED in San Francisco". You get the idea.

His channel is here: METAL LEO