True, but there are so many aspects to the downfall, and one could certainly blame the same leftist mentality that created the aforementioned “800-pound gorilla.”
Well, I'm not sure that there really are "so many aspects" to Detroit's downfall and, again, Steyn neglects to mention the most salient one, it seems to me.
Not every city in this country that has fallen prey to "progressive" ideology has become a Third World shit-hole.