It’s impossible to turn on the news or log in online without seeing hellish images and videos of the fires consuming Los Angeles. Behind the obvious and immediate human tragedy is also an American one: The parts of the city most impacted represent old California — 1920s-Hollywood-American-dream California. The grand, sunny optimism that built this California is as dead as the builders themselves. But it wasn’t old age that killed the spirit. It was politicians.
California has effectively been looted by Democrats. Sure, California’s climate has changed over the century since the grand buildings and mansions of the Palisades were erected, but we all knew that. We knew the risks and had the money to contain and mitigate them, but certain players made conscious decisions to spend it elsewhere, including on the city’s dangerous and growing homeless population and on illegal immigrants.
It’s true that Americans have an incredibly short political memory, but the political repercussions really haven’t even begun.
