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He showcased his role as founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco nonprofit that funds efforts to lift people out of poverty, to highlight his commitment to solving intractable problems.

It was like a PowerPoint presentation arguing, over the course of seven or eight slides, that we’re the rational, trustworthy folks who will try to build consensus with minor technocratic fixes to the country’s massive and intractable problems, whereas that other guy is a dangerous aspiring F-word dictator who just wants to smash things.

His essay does not dwell on some of California’s huge and seemingly intractable challenges — homelessness, generational poverty in urban areas, the housing affordability crisis, the shocking toll rising temperatures are playing in so many parts of life.

Lurie responded by touting his role as founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco nonprofit that funds efforts to lift people out of poverty, to highlight his commitment to solving intractable problems.

“Deadly conflict is becoming more intractable, with big-power competition accelerating and middle powers on the rise,” is how Ms Ero describes the landscape.