Don’t kid yourself. Even if the politician can’t think like us, he has people who can. They know what they want to do and their experts tell them how to spin it so that 51% of the voters think its a good idea. It doesn’t always work, but they do a pretty good job a wrapping up a giant steaming pile in pretty paper and a big bow and telling us it’s Christmas.
This was just a case of letting the criminals win because they outnumbered the cops. Civilization gives up ground and the barbarians take it. Spinning it as “too many cases of heat exhaustion” is so laughable that even a democrat teacher wouldn’t fall for it. This is one of those Baghdad Bob moments.
It would seem that way. My wonder is that they did not “spin” the thing more creatively. They could have tried for some real positive propaganda. Normally the police and pols are a tad more competent politically than that.