I know I quote pundit Kevin Drum a lot on this site but that's because he has a way (often) of cutting through a lot of political jibber-jabber and getting to the basic truth of an issue. Here he is explaining why we're having a recall election today in California. The man's right. He's absolutely right…
For chrissake. I've rarely seen such stream of pseudo-analytic bafflegab in service of avoiding the simple and obvious answer. Here's the deal: The recall is solely the work of "Stop the Steal" Trumpistas who took advantage of the fact that California requires only 1.5 million signatures to certify a recall. Even in their current moldering condition Republicans still make up about a third of all voters, so all the nutbags needed was signatures from the 20-30% of their compatriots in the nutbag wing of the party. Easy peasy, especially if you're gathering signatures at the same time that Trump and Fox News are firing up the nation about corrupt Democrats trying to take the presidency away from him.