It's beginning to look as if California is deliberately trying to tank the economy It's beginning to look as if California is deliberately trying to tank the economy California's bizarre experiment with shutting down the entire state to prevent the Wuhan virus from infecting any more people is going to prove whether the Progressive boosters or grim economic realities will win. And there's always the possibility, far-fetched though it may seem, that California's political leaders are deliberately tanking the economy both to prevent Trump's re-election and to break the welfare system, à la the Cloward-Piven strategy, to force a socialist economy.  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/its_beginning_to_look_as_if_california_is_deliberately_trying_to_tank_the_economy.html