A San Francisco Crackdown Would Carry Enormous Economic Risk

In less than two weeks, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has gone from San Francisco’s most beloved philanthropist to its most famous turncoat to its most unlikely hero.

For much longer than that, the roughly 800,000 residents of this famously progressive California city have been on edge, waiting to find out whether President Donald Trump would make good on his longtime threat to send in federal forces the way he has in Los Angeles and has tried to do in Chicago and Portland.