"We are more likely to believe that housing is a human right' than conservatives in Florida or Texas, but less likely to actually get people housed. We accept a yawning gulf between our values and our outcomes." ... . "Politics always is part theater, but out West too often we settle for being performative rather than substantive." ... . "For example, as a gesture to support trans kids, Oregon took money from the tight education budget to put tampons in boys' restrooms in elementary schools " including boys' restrooms in kindergartens." ... "One of the passions of the left, drawing partly on Ibram X. Kendi's book How to Be an Antiracist,' has been that if a policy leads to racial inequity, then it's racist even if it wasn't meant to be. But by that standard, West Coast progressivism abounds in racism."