Trump’s unique policies are not the only reason for this. Many Democratic writers have observed that voters in big blue cities are furious. They voted for the highest taxes in the country, but the Democrats who ran their state and local governments proved unable to deliver, or unwilling to deliver, the high-quality government services they promised. Public transportation systems are dangerous and unhealthy. Homeless people, often drug addicts, and vagrants are everywhere. There are not enough police officers to respond to calls. Waste disfigures urban landscapes. Public schools are a mess.

Soft-on-crime district attorneys funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros are partly to blame, and two such district attorneys were defeated in the left-wing strongholds of Los Angeles and Oakland. However, the Democratic Party’s inability to govern runs deeper than that. There is a cancer within the party that leaves it incapable of governing effectively except in deep red states.

The problem preventing Democrats from governing effectively lies with public sector unions – Big Labor.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, public employees were specifically excluded from the legislation’s protections.

“All government employees should understand that the process of collective bargaining, as it is generally understood, cannot be transplanted to the civil service,” Roosevelt wrote.

“It presents distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management,” he continued. “The very nature and objectives of government make it impossible for administrative officials to fully represent or bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employee organizations. »

Despite this reasonable and obvious warning about the danger of public sector unionization, Democrats began granting government unions collective bargaining privileges, first in New York City and then throughout New York State . Then other states began adopting the practice, including California in 1968.

Today, the California Democratic Party, and therefore California state government as a whole, is completely controlled by public sector unions. Nothing happens in the state without their agreement. Including the California Teachers Association, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the California State Employees Association, public sector unions collect more than $1 billion in dues each year.

Not a cent of this is spent to improve the delivery of government services to taxpayers. All of this serves to increase what public officials extract from taxpayers in the form of higher wages and more generous health and retirement benefits or to reduce what public officials are forced to give back to taxpayers by limiting their work hours. and extending their vacations.

When private sector unions drain too much value from a private company and that company can no longer provide a good product at a competitive price, the company loses market share and must negotiate a better deal with its unionized employees or go bankrupt.

However, governments are monopolies. When a local government fails to ensure law and order, repair roads, or provide good public education, taxpayers’ options are limited or nonexistent. If they are rich, they can send their children to private schools or move to gated communities. Many wealthy Democrats have done so in California and elsewhere.

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However, for the average taxpayer, when a Democratic Party-controlled government runs state and local governments, and when those governments fail to provide basic services, there is recourse other than through the ballot box. No recourse except to leave the state entirely, which millions of California families have chosen to do.

Until the grip of public sector unions on California and other Democratic-led states is broken, the left party fails to provide good services at reasonable prices, cities will continue to lose money. the people and the Democrats will lose the elections.