Agree with poster above in many ways. My list would be:
1. DEI, Affirmative Action - and sort of excessive ends of equality - what some on the right may call "wokeness". Oftentimes this can be more minor things at the local level - for the instance Eric Adams did a "vegan Friday" initiative for the optics but in practice all he did was take out the meat. San Fransisco spending so much time trying to rename schools during COVID was another example. I also think Dems sometimes worry too much about political correctness - in an ideal world we'd be comfortable enough with each other to not get offended and perhaps even find humor in political incorrectness.
2. Housing. Democrats control most of the large cities with the biggest housing cost issues, and few have adequately addressed the problem. Oftentimes, it's Democrats who are the ones defending extremely restrictive zoning or creating beutratic tape that makes building more homes very difficult. To be fair though, this is more of a local issue, and I think Republicans aren't great on this issue either.
3. Not caring about addressing obvious inefficiencies. Here in NYC for instance it cost like 30 million taxpayer dollars to install a basic staircase at one subway station. Installing single elevators to make stations accessible also regularly goes over 10 million. To me, that feels like taxpayer money being wasted, yet I have seen no Democrats who control the city and state make a serious effort to investigate and fix what's going on there.
I feel like overall what I'm finding is that Democrats frankly suck at governing a lot of the country's largest cities - yes many of these cities have challenging circumstances but it seems like in many of these cases, the "Democrat establishment" who controls these cities is corrupt and often unresponsive to the needs of the people because they know these cities function as basically one party governments - Detroit isn't electing a Republican mayor or city council anytime soon.
It's quite sad indeed how housing costs get driven up due to a mix of overregulation, an attitude of overcontrolling-ness, and interest group pressure pushing things in bad directions.
