The Best Thing Karen Bass Did Was Botch the Palisades Fire — And It Goes Downhill From There

The most fortunate thing that ever happened to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was the catastrophic Palisades fire of January 2025. That sentence sounds cruel until you study how her political survival actually works. The fire — with its dead, its incinerated neighborhoods, its iconic image of a stone-faced mayor refusing to answer questions on a tarmac after returning from Ghana — is so visually…