The western water crisis has returned with a vengeance over the last three months, shattering “exceptional drought” records for the western states (going back to the formation of the U.S. Drought Monitor in 1999). 20% of the American west has reached the most severe U.S. Drought Monitor level, “exceptional drought,” with 75% in some level of drought, and growing discussion of a “megadrought.”
Since the end of the era of great water projects led by visionary builders typified by President Franklin Roosevelt and California Governor Pat Brown, both the Republican and Democratic parties have catastrophically failed to address the building water crisis in the western regions of the country. With the Democrats wedded to the cult of radical environmentalism, and the Republicans blinded by a pagan worship of laissez-faire ideologies, the American people have been left to suffer under failed economic policies for too long.
Now, finally, we have a new political faction emerging, a “producers party,” a movement of builders, rallying around Trump’s commitment to returning the Republican party to the party of Lincoln (as my friend Kesha Rogers used to say, “out of the Bushes and into the future!”).
Might the western water crisis become an economic litmus test for the newly emerging producers party?
