Abolishing the suburbs?

[CJD]

The National Review is a really nutty right wing website, but this is how they explain "Abolishing the suburbs"

Quote:Obama is a longtime supporter of “regionalism,” the idea that the suburbs should be folded into the cities, merging schools, housing, transportation, and above all taxation. To this end, the president has already put programs in place designed to push the country toward a sweeping social transformation in a possible second term. The goal: income equalization via a massive redistribution of suburban tax money to the cities.

Obama’s plans to undercut the political and economic independence of America’s suburbs reach back decades. The community organizers who trained him in the mid-1980s blamed the plight of cities on taxpayer “flight” to suburbia.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/08/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz/

Of course, this article was written back in 2012. Just like most Republican conspiracy theories, it spans back to Obama. Is there any credibility to it? Probably not. It is a lot more likely to be a dog whistle to racists.

Something to the tune of "If they make suburbs more like cities, you're going to have poor black people in your neighborhood! And that's exactly why you left the city in the first place!"