This Ezra Klein column about California has some really weird framing; "California is so progressive, yet doesn't do progressive things!" is much less of a contradiction if you just start with the fact that the state is not that progressive
Why write a whole column about how the state isn't actually very progressive and then end with "If progressivism cannot work here, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?"
And not to be like "everything is great!" but stuff like this is happening; if Klein were less interested in the SF school board renaming controversy, it might be worth looking at! berkeleyside.com/2021/02/11/opi…
That California is VERY PROGRESSIVE and Texas is VERY CONSERVATIVE feels like an extension of electoral fallacy where a 54% win is a gigantic victory and a 46% loss is a crushing defeat. California and Texas are the same state, don't @ me
Ezra Klein: "it's time to talk about California! San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco. Also: San Francisco! In conclusion: San Francisco? San Francisco. SAN. FRANCISCO."
(A random California fact: from 1983-1999 the governor was a Republican and from 2003-2011, the governor was a Republican. Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom have been democratic governors of the state for 9 years after a 30 year GOP statehouse hegemony.)
(in the first 20 years of young Ezra "OC4EVAH" Klein's life, Texas had had a Democratic governor for a total of 7 years; California had had a Democratic governor for a total of 3.)
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