11/09/26

In an op-ed some months prior to the election, columnist Allysia Finley asks: “How does a state with so many people end up producing politicians with so little talent?” “Perhaps” she notes, “because the party obsession with identity and … Trump trumps competence. In a one-party state, Democratic politicians face little competition.” And now, Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman has won the Los Angeles mayor’s race defeating the incompetent incumbent Karen Bass.