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California has a major water crisis the way 1990s New York once had an urban blight crisis. But don’t look for a Rudy Giuliani to the rescue. The state’s governor, Jerry Brown, has morphed into a full-blown space cadet.
In most parts of the world, when a leader starts talking wildly as a crisis builds — think Ecuador during the presidency of Abdala “El Loco” Bucaram or Russia during the heyday of ex-communist parliamentarian Vladimir Zhirinovsky — attention focuses on the lunacy coming from the top.