California is a state that God clearly favored. It has towering mountains, endless ocean coastlines, fertile valleys that feed half the country, tech trillions pouring out of Silicon Valley, Hollywood glamor that still captivates the world, and some of the richest farmland anywhere on earth.
This place could literally print money if it wanted to. Instead, it has become the world’s most expensive homeless encampment that increasingly resembles a third world country with better Instagram filters.
In California, local officials poured $37 billion into the largest open-air drug market in America, built the most expensive train set that never left the toy store, turned the fifth-largest economy in the world into a foreign oil–dependent, price-gouged, blackout-prone laughingstock, and lit the state on fire, quite literally.
Yet, if you only listened to Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Sacramento Democrats over the past decade, you’d believe it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, argues Drew Allen on this special video commentary.
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