Gavin Newsom, surveying the hellhole his
policies created. Looks proud, doesn’t he?

The news today is about how numerous Hollywood celebrities who have lost their homes in the wildfires that have been destroying huge swatches of the Los Angeles metropolitan area are one-by-one expressing loud public outrage at the mismanagement and failures of the Democrats running California’s state and city governments.

The list is long and detailed at the link. This comment is quite typical:

Actress Sara Foster also took to X to lament how Los Angeles residents pay exorbitant taxes but the state was still completely unprepared to take on such massive wildfires. “Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits,” she wrote.

The politically active actress, who is the daughter of music mogul David Foster, called on [LA mayor] Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign, writing, “your far left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.” [emphasis mine]

The highlighted words tell us however that Foster is not yet ready to reject the corrupt, bigoted, and incompetent Democratic Party that she so loves. This has been the pattern now for decades. No matter how bad its policies, the partisan adherents to the Democratic Party have too often consistently resisted opening their minds to other choices.

It immediately occurred to me however that this present outrage is only a foretaste of the real outrage soon to come. You see, all of these celebrities have enough money to rebuild. All of them love where they live. And all of them have not the slightest idea what they will face when they attempt to weave their way through California’s Byzantine regulations to do so.

You see, most either bought houses already in existence, or built their house many decades ago. As the decades have passed and these partisan Democrats have voted time and time for radical socialists to run their city and state, those socialists have piled on new building regulation after building regulation, almost all related to some absurd environmental cause pushed by activist groups.

Ordinary citizens have been struggling with this red tape for years. Many simply give up and flee the state. Those that stick it out find the cost many times greater than it should be, almost bankrupting them, with the construction taking many more years than needed to finish.

These celebrities haven’t cared because it didn’t impact them. They voted for these “feel-good” environmental causes pushed by the Democrats because it allowed them to brag about their virtue at cocktail parties.

Well, these regulations will impact them now. In a spot-on rant on X today, Comedian Adam Carolla outlined this reality.

“You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you [#$%?$&] get what you get. now that your house is on fire.

So here’s what’s going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they’re going to get the 28-year-old bitch from the Coastal Commission telling them to go [&(%$#\] off.

The last reference has to do with all those beach front homes. The Coastal Commission is likely going to resist having any rebuilt. And if any at all do get approved, don’t expect the building to proceed fast or at a reasonable cost. For example, just to replace their in-ground pools is going to require an absurd amount of money. As Carolla notes, California regulations now require such pools to be built like fuel tanks, with double hulls, to guarantee swim water will not leach into the environment.

It is an insane regulation that should never have even been considered. But that’s what California’s Democrats made law, and all these celebrities shrugged and voted for it, because it didn’t affect them.

The changes at the ballot box have barely started

Carolla predicts these leftist actors are all suddenly going to become Trump fans. I myself now would not be surprised. For the first time it has become acceptable in this crowd to say bad things about Democrats. Newsom might scream, “Pay no attention to that man in the corner,” but the curtain has been lifted. His and his party’s insane failures are now in stark display for all to see.

Thus we might finally see the opinion cascade against the Democrats that should have occurred several decades ago. The Democrat Party has been bigoted, corrupt, incompetent, and generally irrational for many many years. Its supporters have refused to face this, however, because it only hurt others.

Now it hurts them also. This makes it difficult for them to rationalize this reality away, as they have for decades.

In fact, the Democratic Party doesn’t have many people left it has not hurt. What else can happen but an opinion cascade against it?