It was Bernie Sanders who went to Baltimore and said the city turned into the equivalent of a South American city so the issue is not racist when he said it - but is racist if any Republican says it, Baltimore is mild compared to what is happening in California cities and in New York.
Problem is that the middle class is being destroyed through taxes and small business owners burdened by excessive taxation and having to cope with chaos in their streets are moving out of the cities and even out of California and is causing job losses. In New York the mother of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez left the city for the same reason.
It is wonderful to have socialist ideas - but in the end it failed worldwide through poor and impossible implementation. The Democratic Party controls most major cities in the USA and the standard of living of ordinary people in those cities have deteriorated badly over the last two decades.