A crazy process and lack of attention could give California a Trumpist governor. Watching the horror show, I started looking at how CA has fared since 2010, when progressives took power. Did you know that its economy grew as fast as Texas'? 1/ 
CA also matched TX employment growth 2/
Where CA did badly — and it did very, very badly — was housing, where the NIMBYs prevented remotely adequate construction 3/
Still, the reality is amazingly different from the narrative. Sort of reminds me of the way France gets trash-talked, and how shocked some people get when you tell them that employment of prime-age adults is higher there than here 4/
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