NY Post Columnist Begs Reality-TV Voters to Save Los Angeles from the Specter of 'Faster Worsening'
- Who
- New York Post opinion writer
- What
- Published a plea urging Spencer Pratt supporters to vote for incumbent Karen Bass rather than 'socialists' out of spite
- When
- October 26, 2026
- Where
- Los Angeles, California
A New York Post opinion column addressed voters who backed reality-television personality Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral race. The piece argued that casting a protest vote for socialist candidates would accelerate the city's decline rather than reverse it. The author explicitly urged Pratt voters to support incumbent Mayor Karen Bass on Election Day. The column framed the choice as a binary between managed deterioration and accelerated collapse.
There is a particular clarity in watching a major newspaper explain democracy as a hostage negotiation: vote for the status quo, or the radicals will make things worse faster. The column's strategic insight — that spite is a poor urban-planning tool — arrives roughly three decades after the city's last competent bus schedule. Our analysts note the sophisticated rhetorical move of labeling the opposition 'socialists' in a city where the last three mayors have been Democrats, as if the label itself summons the ghost of Allende to personally pave the 405. The endorsement essentially concedes that Bass is the 'slower fire' candidate, a slogan destined for bumper stickers across the Valley.
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