The news cycle has been incredibly busy over the last month, but I want to go back a little over a month to the crisis in California. The state had done little to properly prepare for any sort of wildfire crisis. One of the biggest contributing factors was the lack of brush clearing in California’s forested areas. The underbrush was left to grow out of control, and outside groups with outsized influence on the government actually fought to allow it to grow even bigger and become a bigger threat to citizens.
Soon, it was so big that a single spark allowed it to become the kindling that tore down whole cities and left people’s lives in ruins. It was mismanagement at its finest, and it serves as a metaphor for what we’re seeing in Washington D.C. today. Over the course of a week, we have seen dozens of stories in the press about the work Donald Trump, Elon…
