It's the progressive policies, Stupid!

The Democrats' blame game continues. Some level-headed people have figured it out that the Democrat Party is in trouble if they keep listening to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pramila Jayapal, aka the Loud Left. These sane Midwesterners shouldn't be mistaken for Tim Walz and J.B. Pritzker. These people are weird.

The Left Coast is another story entirely. I'm thankful I don't have to write the book about it. The WSJ's Allysia Finley already did that in this column.

In the article, Ms. Finley wrote "The first step to any recovery is admitting you have a problem. Some Democrats are starting to do that, but they still won’t admit that their policies are the cause. Take California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose cure for a hangover is a Tequila sunrise. On his 'Politickin' podcast, he blamed Democrats’ election drubbing on the 'five I's': inflation, immigration, interest rates, incumbency and Israel’s war in Gaza."

Actually, it isn't that complicated. For years, people across the nation have wanted safe neighborhoods, good schools rather than neighborhood indoctration centers (otherwise known as public schools), cheap energy and low home mortgage rates. That's what's used to be called the American Dream.

Whatever Happened to the American Dream?

The American Dream didn't disappear entirely. It's just been temporarily paused while we suffered through the Biden-Harris administration. The Biden-Harris-Newsom agenda isn't complicated. It's filled with progressive policies. Things like extreme climate change policies, high taxes, oppressive regulations, little law enforccement and open borders are features, not flaws.

The American Dream is Returning

MAGAnomics produced prosperity once before. It'll produce prosperity again. Capitalism works, socialism doesn't. The Five discuss the American Dream in this segment:

Further, they made it clear that we don't settle for things. An old friend of mine from Fingerhut had 2 signs up in his cubicle. One of the signs said "We work hard. We play harder." That was essentially our corporate statement. The other sign said "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." That was our corporate motto. We thought that if we could envision it, we could achieve it. At Amertica's core, that's what we believe, too. Settling for a condominium instead of pushing for a home with a spacious back yard isn't the American Dream.

Voters were “p—” about these things, but Democrats didn’t realize it because they lived and campaigned in a "bubble," Mr. Newsom observed. "And so you don’t really have a sense of what’s real and what’s not. The crowds are organized. The crowds are enthusiastic, but it’s a bunch of Democrats." California’s coast epitomizes this bubble.

Such affluent areas voted for Kamala Harris, but Donald Trump won almost all the state’s inland counties, which are composed mostly of working-class and Hispanic voters. These folks have been especially squeezed by high energy prices caused by the state’s climate policies, which have also killed manufacturing and energy jobs.

Yet two days after Mr. Trump won election, Mr. Newsom ordered a special legislative session to "Trump-proof" California’s progressive policies, such as its electric-vehicle mandate and sanctuary-state status. The following day, his Air Resources Board approved a regulation that it projects will raise state gasoline prices by 47 cents a gallon come next year.

Good luck with that, Gov. Hair Gel. That's how Democrats got their butts paddled.