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The California Primaries Are A Giant Disaster

California desperately needed a major course correction, and the primary elections so far mostly tell us that nothing of the kind is even possible.

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Editor’s note: This article discusses mature themes.

You can’t fail in California if you have a (D) behind your name. The “vote blue no matter who” rule has you covered. A political nightmare is developing here, the scale of which is hard to exaggerate, because a comfortable majority of California voters just pull the lever for the new version of Tammany Hall no matter what.

But before we talk about election results, note that we don’t really have those. Last night, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber made the usual announcement that one expects regarding elections in the Third World: “On Election Night, we will have a good picture of the outcome of most contests, but it will take weeks to know the final results. This is normal.” She’s not kidding. As I write this, the afternoon after election night, we’ve counted a little more than half of the expected ballots, in an election that appears to be hovering below 25 percent turnout.

Here’s what that means. In 2010, the Democrat district attorney of San Francisco — a young Kamala Harris, if you remember that obscure name — appeared to have lost the race for California attorney general to the Republican DA in Los Angeles, Steve Cooley. Here’s an old news headline that revisits the outcome: “When Kamala Harris lost on election night, but won three weeks later.” Certain very interesting things tend to happen when California counts new ballots several weeks after election day.

With that important proviso in mind, we can consider what seems to be happening so far in California’s primary elections. And it’s bad, bad, bad, bad, bad news.

This woman stepped off an airplane from a trip to another continent while wildfires that would engulf roughly 7 percent of her giant city were burning in a place with a badly understaffed and under-equipped fire department, and here’s what she did:

'Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget? @skydavidblevins questions the mayor of LA, Karen........

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