Susan Shelley: Democrats vs. democracy

“Hypocrisy,” said a French aristocrat back in the 1600s, “is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

The “tributes” are pouring in from Democratic political leaders in California. They pose as defenders of democracy while they work full-time to destroy it.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are trying to assassinate three initiatives that the people of California put on the ballot using the powers of direct democracy. They are attacking two initiatives that are set to be on this November’s ballot...