Chesa Boudin and all of these whack jobs are all going to get voted out and recalled.View on YouTube
Jason framed his prediction as a broad, near‑total political purge: he said the “woke socialist leadership” of San Francisco — explicitly including District Attorney Chesa Boudin — would see “Chesa Boudin and all of these whack jobs…all…get voted out and recalled.”
Parts of this did happen:
- Chesa Boudin was successfully recalled as San Francisco district attorney on June 7, 2022, with 55% voting “yes” on recall, and was replaced by Brooke Jenkins, who then won the November 2022 special election and a full term in 2024.
- Three progressive school board commissioners — Alison Collins, Gabriela López, and Faauuga Moliga — were overwhelmingly recalled in February 2022.
- Progressive supervisor Gordon Mar lost re‑election in 2022 to moderate Joel Engardio, and in 2024 progressive supervisor Dean Preston lost to Bilal Mahmood while Aaron Peskin’s seat went to moderate Danny Sauter.
But Jason’s stronger claim — that essentially all of the “woke socialist” officials would be removed in the ensuing election/recall cycles — did not come true. Several prominent progressives either kept or gained power:
- Progressive supervisor Connie Chan was re‑elected in District 1 in 2024.
- Progressive/left‑leaning incumbents like Myrna Melgar in District 7 also won re‑election in 2024.
- New explicitly progressive or democratic socialist figures, such as Jackie Fielder in District 9 and Chyanne Chen in District 11, were elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2024 and described as major wins for progressives.
- Progressive Shamann Walton remained supervisor for District 10 through this period, with no successful recall removing him from office.
By 2024–25, San Francisco had clearly experienced a backlash against some high‑profile progressive officials (Boudin, school board members, Mar, Preston), but it did not amount to the clean sweep Jason predicted: progressives still held, and in some cases gained, key seats in city government. Because his claim was essentially that all of the “woke socialist” officials would be voted out or recalled, the prediction is best judged as wrong, even though parts of it (notably Boudin’s recall) were accurate.