It’s morning again in the City of Angels.

Nathan Hochman, a deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, unseated Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón in a crushing victory last week.

Hochman, who is running as an independent, received 61 percent of the vote compared to 39 percent for the far-left Democratic attorney general elected in 2020. Attorney Ross LLP, an expert in criminal justice and tax law, will take office on Dec. 2. .

It’s a quick comeback for the future hometown hero, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School and earned his law degree from Stanford.

He ran as a Republican in the 2022 California Attorney General race, losing to Democrat Rob Bonta. But the troubles in the liberal paradise gave him a new opening.

“People disagree about a lot these days, but they all agree that safety is first and foremost what they expect from their government,” he told The Post in an interview.

Gascón survived two recall attempts — but not a challenge from the former federal prosecutor and chairman of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.

A spike in crime — along with opposition from the prosecutors’ union — fueled the fire for Gascón’s ouster.

A Los Angeles Police Department report from March showed a nearly 3 percent increase in violent crimes and a staggering 9.5 percent increase in robberies year over year.

Hochman’s victory came as state voters also passed Proposition 36 — which reverses laws Gascón bragged about helping to draft, turning certain felonies into felonies, including some theft and drug offenses.

Hochman told The Post that the proposal’s overwhelming support — 70 percent — will make his job easier when he takes office next month.

“On the third conviction, what used to be just misdemeanors can now become a felony,” he said.

“The court could order someone to go to state prison or sentence them to state prison. The same in the field of drug use. If you use serious drugs like meth, heroin, fentanyl, now your third conviction can be a mandatory treatment option. The fourth conviction can be state prison. And with fentanyl poisoners — and I use that word intentionally — it provides additional tools to really increase the penalties and resources to go after fentanyl poisoners.”

On day one, the DA-elect said, he would take a “tough middle ground” approach and quickly get rid of restrictions put in place by Gascón, which he said harm victims and hinder the ability of prosecutors to do their jobs under the incumbent district attorney .

“There are general policies that say the DA’s office does not prosecute juveniles, anyone under the age of 18, for misdemeanor crimes, which includes misdemeanor theft, which is stealing just under $950. We will remove this ban,” said the prosecutor.

It will end too prohibition to add gang charges and weapons to crime enhancements and other Gascon ordinances.

“Prosecutors have banned prosecutors from going with victims’ families to parole hearings when they’re dealing with the killer of their son or their daughter or their parent,” he said.

“For decades, prosecutors used to go with victims’ families because they have access to parole board information and can make the best case on behalf of victims’ families. I will remove that ban that Gascón imposed on his first day to allow prosecutors to once again be victims’ champions in the system.”

Hochman also told The Post that he hopes to make his office a critical community partner in addressing the region’s homelessness crisis. More than 75,000 people in Los Angeles are considered homeless as of this year, per county DATA.

“Law enforcement officers, when they go into homeless areas, they basically tell anyone who asks why they’re not doing their job — that the DA’s hands are tied,” Hochman said.

“So I will untie the hands of the law enforcement officer to do his job. But again, the ultimate approach is not to see if we can fill the prisons to breaking point – that, if anything, is the failure of the criminal justice system. The approach is whether or not we can deter this criminal behavior in the first place.”

The most populous county in the nation, nearly 10 million people call LA County home. But the county, like California, is still grappling with residents leaving the state en masse and a major crisis in public perception when it comes to crime.

Hochman’s election could mark a turning point — if his crime-reduction strategies work, the City of Angels could become much more angelic in the years to come.