At a Seattle University forum last month, Mayor Katie Wilson delivered what may go down as the most economically illiterate applause line of the year. Asked about millionaires fleeing Washington over the state’s new 9.9% income tax on earnings above $1 million, the self-described socialist waved her hand and said, to cheers from the crowd, “I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye.”

Bye. The line drew 4 million views on social media within days. Even Democrats rebuked her: Former state Sen. Reuven Carlyle wrote that Wilson’s enthusiasm for “destructive anti-business rhetoric is harmful to jobs, taxes and quality of life.” Members of her own party said so publicly.