> no politician will engage with the traffic safety issue because it has "low ideological salience." In other words, terrible drivers come from all political tribes and so you can't make a wedge issue/culture war out of it.

we're in a single party city. It's hard to demonize a political outgroup as the source of our issues with any intellectual honesty.

This line of political thinking makes perfect sense in larger elections, but we don't have an opposing tribe to hate here