Google co-founder Sergey Brin said recently that he fled socialism in the Russia with his family in 1979 and does not want California to end up in the same place. The response was predictable. The New York Times devoted more space to his girlfriend than to his argument. Progressives on X dismissed the warning as hysterical billionaire bluster over a modest five percent tax.  Hyperbole, they insisted. Soviet comparisons are over the top, they claimed. Lighten up, they said. Unfortunately, it’s