The Federalist "Epic incompetence from Democrats can only be excused by blaming the California fires on a sinful mankind that is changing the climate."
"Liberal pundits can be relied upon to demonstrate loyalty to their party in spite of the sorry performance of the people in charge. But the party line about the disaster isn’t so much a function of opinion slingers. Rather, it is a concerted effort throughout legacy media to shift the public’s attention away from the evidence of ineptitude, often rooted in liberal ideologies like DEI policies and extreme environmentalism."
"Apocalyptic global warming predictions of doom have long been fashionable, quasi-religious beliefs of 21st-century liberalism. But after the recent wildfires that have devastated the state, some California Democrats will be clinging to climate change as a matter of political survival.
"The epic incompetence demonstrated both by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during the crisis isn’t just a matter of bad optics and some excruciatingly embarrassing moments for two career politicians. It has also created the possibility that even in a one-party state completely dominated by the Democrats, they might be held accountable for their egregious lack of leadership and terrible decisions that turned a natural disaster into an unprecedented catastrophe that has cost dozens of lives and destroyed more than 12,000 homes and buildings.
"While the notion that this might be a turning point to reverse the overwhelming advantage possessed by Democrats in California might be fanciful, the two are highly vulnerable to recall elections that, especially in the case of Bass, might actually force her from office.
"That’s only if the voters of the fire-ravaged state are ready to think seriously about the glaring evidence of bungling that left some reservoirs empty, fire departments not fully budgeted as well as neglect of proper water, land, and forest management practices that could have, at the very least, mitigated the suffering and the billions in damage inflicted on the state’s people.
"Newsom and Bass have not gotten off scot-free when it comes to critical scrutiny from the media for their poor crisis management skills and for decisions that helped turn the fire from a bad problem into something much worse. But the response from most of the liberal chorus in newspapers like the Los Angeles Times has been to defend both of them. LA Columnists like Mark Barbarak and Steve Lopez have both decried what they call the “politicization” of the fires by President Donald Trump and other Republicans.
"They prefer to blame “Mother Nature” and climate change." . . . Full article
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