In LA fire horror, California elites face the consequences of blue misrule

California 's leaders are agonizingly inept, says Julian Zelizer .

The wealthy of California largely stayed put, but the lower and middle classes made a run for the door, Zelizer says.

After over a decade of one -party rule, California has become the testing ground for the left’s most extreme ideas.

California 's rich and famous have a choice: They can move their state in a better direction.

They can break from their usual leftist conformity and speak the plain truth.

Breaking with the left is a difficult thing to do in a sea of deep blue, Karol Markowicz says.