Burn after reading

The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles County expose a generation of bad government in California. Governor Newsom is its perfect face and hairdo. In Los Angeles the authorities are scrubbing the record. In a detailed story at the Washington Free Beacon, Susannah Luthi reports:

Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed. When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass’s administration pulled Crowley’s memo from its website.

As always, I appreciate the involved party’s nonresponse: “Bass’s office did not respond to questions about the deleted memo. Instead, a representative referred the Washington Free Beacon to the Los Angeles Times article on the post-budget pay boosts.”

Victor Davis Hanson is not tongue-tied. He comments on the wildfires in “Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California.”

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