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As fires continue to destroy Los Angeles, the incompetence of that city’s leadership, along with that of the State of California, is coming into focus. It is almost incredible that anyone could do as bad a job as Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom have done. Many instances of their incompetence have come to light, but Michael Shellenberger takes the broad view, explaining how progressive politics inevitably led to the current disaster. Please do read the whole thing:

At the micro level, the Democrats’ futility would be funny if its consequences were not so tragic. This is the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, with a quote for the ages: “I don’t know how water gets to the hydrants.” She also says she didn’t know that the Santa Ynez Reservoir held no water. It has been empty since 2009:

Much more will be written about the incompetence of Democratic Party officials in the months to come, but some disasters are so complete that they speak for themselves. Will the Los Angeles fires contribute the public revulsion against the Democratic Party that we saw building last year, and that culminated in the election of Donald Trump? In a word, yes.