Steve Moore and guest Tom Del Beccaro examine the socioeconomic decline of California, attributing its massive population loss to excessive taxation and a government that is increasingly hostile to the middle class and wealthy alike. They argue that the state’s one-party system has led to fiscal mismanagement and a failure to address basic infrastructure needs, such as the stagnant rebuilding efforts following devastating wildfires. Del Beccaro connects these localized issues to the broader themes of his book, The Divided Era, positing that as government grows and spends more, it inevitably creates political polarization by forcing citizens to compete for state-controlled resources.

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