A quarter-mile long largely state-owned factory stands in Buffalo as a monument to Hope and Change. While Democrats today try to make this failure into a story about “egotistical billionaires” (Elon Musk) or a disgraced former governor (Andrew Cuomo), this is really a brick-and-mortar memorial to the failures of the Democratic Party’s Obama-era industrial policy.

The Wall Street Journal’s new in-depth report on the failures of this government-owned Tesla/Solar City plant rightly pins the blame on Cuomo, who as governor inked the deal with Elon Musk’s companies in the early 2010s. Cuomo even gushed that the massive subsidized factory — leased to Musk’s companies for $1 a year — was akin to the Buffalo Bills winning the Super Bowl.