I was so wrong about don. I just thought he hated California. He is equal opportunity state hate. Didja know?

To be fair, many people hate California. After three decades of radical progressivism, many California residents are tiring of a one-party straitjacket rule. The hard-liberal order normalized massive power blackouts, the nation’s highest array of taxes, the forest mismanagement that fuels deadly fires, an epidemic of homelessness in major cities, eroding schools, crumbling infrastructure, and soaring energy costs. There is a great sickness in California, home of the greatest number of American billionaires and poor people. The agricultural heart of the state has dried up, the middle-class have fled to more favorable tax environments. 

  As in most of California’s existential crises—budgeting, infrastructure, pensions, immigration, education, law enforcement—the problem lies in its coastal corridor, a surreal place where liberal grandees assume that they are exempt from the chaotic and destructive ramifications of their own cancerous utopian ideologies. The situation seems dire and bleak for those who wish to restore the once-great state.