Californias leaders destroyed my home and my state which is why more of us are becoming conservatives

Matt Himes is a writer and editor at Blaze Media who lost his Pacific Palisades home when the wildfires struck Los Angeles.A former liberal, he says the ineptitude shown by Democratic leaders like LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov.

Gavin Newsom have made him — and many of his neighbors — more conservative.Want to cure a liberal? Ship them to California.One-party rule has been squandering California’s abundant talent and treasure for decades, turning a one-time exemplar of the middle-class American dream into a crumbling, crowded and crime-ridden hellhole.Los Angeles especially has suffered a steep decline.The enlightened liberals of Hollywood and Silicon Beach simply chose not to see it — gated communities and private schools certainly helped.That was before this month’s catastrophic wildfires leveled whole communities — and took out some of the choicest real estate in the country.Now the grossly incompetent leadership of our climate-change-crazy, DEI-obsessed overlords have many in this bluest of blue states seeing red.Take it from me, a former registered Democrat on the ground: California is at a tipping point.

Anyone still shocked by the presidential election results better buckle up for the unthinkable: the MAGA-fication of the Left Coast.It’s been a long time coming.For the past couple of years we Angelenos have had front row seats for California’s decline.What first infuriated my crowd of west side parents were the draconian COVID school closures.

As our children grew glassy-eyed from “remote learning,” public health interventions expanded to include interrogations of white supremacy (and exemptions for looters).Presiding over all of this was California Gov.Gavin Newsom, a smarmy, small-time huckster with all of the obnoxious swagger of the president — and none of his virtues.Many a lawyer and MBA-turned-stay-at-home mom — long accustomed to expending their skills and savvy running the annual fundraising carnival or school auct...