Perhaps no other city in America illuminates the failure of Democratic Party policies more brightly than Detroit. Two stories, separated by only four, days are emblematic. On March 11, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatick was found guilty of 24 of 30 charges leveled against him, including fraud, racketeering and extortion. Four days later, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed attorney Kevyn Orr as the city's emergency financial manager, in a last ditch effort to avoid what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation's history. From 1961 to the present, the tragic history of Detroit itself has been written entirely by Democrats such as these individuals.