> California is dominated by Democrats, but many of the people Democrats claim to care about most can’t afford to live there. > There is an old finding in poli

> California is dominated by Democrats, but many of the people Democrats claim to care about most can’t afford to live there. > There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally liberal.” Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California, the same split political personality exists, but in reverse: We’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative. Renaming closed schools is an almost novelistically on-point example, but it is not the most consequential. He seems very close to realizing that neo-liberalism is not a left wing ideology and that it's producing the results it's intended to produce. Recently neo-liberalism has "borrowed" some left wing language around race, but only superficially so. Neo-liberal politics as practiced, are still the foundation of the establishment.