Assuming he doesn’t take a job in Joe Biden’s cabinet, Jay Inslee will continue doing about as well as a standard-issue corporate Democrat can do as governor. With four more years, he’ll likely push some green energy legislation through Olympia to keep us on pace with California and Oregon, allow for some moderate tax increases on the super-wealthy (though he thinks “we may not need new progressive taxes” to fill the state’s $4.5 billion budget hole), and continue shepherding Washington through the COVID-19 crisis better than almost every other governor in the U.S.
And at least Inslee believes in the legitimacy of democratic rule, unlike his competition, Loren Culp, the creepy little virus party planner who crawled out of a Facebook comment thread and captured the imagination of the state’s batshit Republicans. Seriously. This guy literally believes “Democracy is a step toward socialism, which is a step towards communism.” The shit this man has said and done is so laughably insane the SECB takes little joy in dunking on him. The basket is too low.
