as she says this was a failure of government at its basic level;

Journalist Bari Weiss is not a conservative, but she is also not woke. She actually left the New York Times over wokeness before founding the Free Press.

She recently appeared on FOX News and talked about the California fires, describing them as a failure of government on the most ‘fundamental’ things and she is exactly right. This is part of what is so maddening about this situation.

Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and other Democrat leaders bend over backwards to focus on left wing social justice issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the role of government. Yet when it comes to the most basic functions of government, such as keeping buildings from burning down, they have failed completely.

They do not understand the role of government at its most essential level.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

Bari Wiess: Los Angeles is being governed and the state of California is being governed by people who have lost sight of the basics of governing. They have lost sight of the idea that we pay you a tax so that you take care of basics for us. And nothing could be more basic than preventing the burning down of, as you just said in your introduction, an area twice the size of Manhattan, right? It’s hard to conceive of how big this is...........more.........