Douglas Murray: "California’s Collapse Is Far Worse Than Reported…"

Douglas Murray: California Rewards Lawlessness — And Calls It Compassion

Douglas Murray doesn’t mince words. What’s happening in California isn’t a policy failure — it’s a moral collapse dressed in empathy.

Sanctuary cities were sold as compassion. What they delivered was chaos. Up to 12 million illegal entries under Biden. Half a million with criminal records. Now the streets of Los Angeles burn — not because of injustice, but because federal agents dared to enforce the law.

While shopkeepers scrape human waste off sidewalks and pay sky-high taxes, illegal encampments grow with state protection. Gavin Newsom shrugs and promises to “get to work,” even as his government proposes handing $150,000 in taxpayer money to those who broke the country’s most basic rule: the border.

This isn’t about immigrants. It’s about inversion — where burning the American flag is praised, and defending your property is punished. Where squatting is subsidized and working is penalized.

Murray warns: this isn’t just California’s burden. It’s a preview of national decay — if this madness spreads.

Leadership matters. And so does truth.
Because if lawlessness is rebranded as virtue — the republic doesn’t survive.