I wish that we could delist California Conservative from the list of endangered species but their numbers keep falling. While listening to National Review’s Radio Free California podcast with Will Swaim, (President of California Policy Center, a center/right think tank and legal organization in Tustin, Ca.) and John Eastman (former Dean of Chapman University School of Law and Founding Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence in Ca.), I learned that Eastman flew the Southern California coop for Santa Fe, New Mexico. Furthermore, in a prior podcast, in a quick off-handed remark between Swaim and co-host David Bahnsen (Managing Director of the Bahnsen Group), both admitted to the fact that they didn’t know of anyone who didn’t have a plan to leave the state.
Speaking of caravans, Eastman has apparently joined the 4-decade-long crowd of middle-class refugees who have fled to points beyond the reach of Sacramento.
It’s more than a footnote in the sorry tale of the decline of the once-Golden State. The state increasingly resembles a feudal rat’s nest of masses of the poor and the super-rich protected behind the walls of their gated enclaves, as all of it sits atop a decaying infrastructure.
For many decades now, the majority of the people of the state have politically chosen rot … and the creation of millions wishing to escape. Sounds like Venezuela.
RogerG