Why don’t California Democrats have a plan for the state they’ve run for 16 years?

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California Democrats have had a monopoly on state power for the past 16 years, with legislative margins so wide that they don’t have to worry about Republicans holding up their agenda. Despite this, they still insist they need to “take a moment” to come up with a plan for the state.

That was how California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks defended Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra (D-CA). When confronted with the fact that Becerra, even after winning, refuses to commit to much of anything about the state’s direction over the next four years, Hicks described Becerra as “thoughtful” and disputed that he was being “vague.”

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