When is a fire an earthquake? - The Spectator World

When it opens a gaping hole under failed politicians and their policies - Charles Lipson 

The fire now engulfing whole neighborhoods in Los Angeles will soon engulf the politicians who failed to protect them. 

The first casualties will be Mayor Karen Bass and California governor Gavin Newsom. 

They are already “dead politicians walking.”
It is important to recognize that Newsom and Bass are not being held responsible for a “natural disaster,” even one of horrific scale. 

Nor should they be. 

• They should be held responsible for failed leadership, for misplaced priorities, for the misuse of high tax revenues (no one can say Californians are undertaxed), and for policy choices that failed to meet the first responsibility of any government: protecting citizens’ lives and property...