While cities have for decades been the biggest victims of failed liberal policies, they now stand a chance to provide America with a lesson in recovery. They also provide an opportunity for conservatives to push for major reforms and make significant political inroads in areas in which they presently have little presence. For example, Detroit and Newark, N.J., have been through the economic ringer and are continually associated with the backhanded description of “once-great cities.” It wasn’t that long ago that both were emerging as great commercial centers — Detroit as the motor city and Newark as a hub of international trade. But in the decades since, both have atrophied as political machines, union corruption, and federal usurpations removed power from residents and placed it in the hands of ever-distant politicians, bureaucrats and judges.
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