By Selwyn Duke

Value-signaling is all fun and games — until the vagrant sets up a tent on your sidewalk. Then it becomes real. And this kind of reality-delivered slap in the face is apparently what recently caused residents of Austin, Texas — a notoriously liberal city — to reject measures pushed by progressives.

The first case concerns how, in 2019, the left-wing Austin City Council allowed vagrant encampments on all city-owned land, except City Hall. (Just as with laws, apparently, social decay is only for the little people.) This led to all the usual problems and an attempt to gag police who warned of the policy’s perils.

The result was a rebellion by residents who sought to reinstate the camping ban via an initiative known as Proposition B.

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