Maryland basketball fans of a certain vintage will remember former coach Lefty Driesell’s famous promise to “make Maryland the UCLA of the East.” That is, Driesell wanted to turn the Maryland’s basketball program into an east coast version of legendary coach John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins who dominated that era of college basketball.

Driesell never came close, but unfortunately, Maryland’s Democratic one-party rulers have spent the last few decades attempting to make Maryland the California of the east.