This disaster is the result of negligent water management, insufficient controlled burns, inadequate funding, lawlessness, and flawed DEI hiring practices—simply put, poor governance. 

Those responsible must be held accountable and removed from power.

More broadly, government failures have become all too frequent and costly—evidenced by the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the crisis at the border, rising crime in our streets, political weaponization of the justice system, censorship on social media, runaway debt, the lackluster response to Hurricane Helene, and now the devastating LA fires.

The outcome in all of these cases has been the destruction of American lives and property.

This is why Hanlon’s Razor—“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”—is not a defense. Whether the bad outcome arose from malice or incompetence is irrelevant. What matters is preventing such outcomes, which requires accountability and the removal of those in power who are responsible for them. 

The American people are fed up and deserve better.