Hey, President Biden: Where’s California’s Invite to Your Democracy Summit?

The Golden State Is Far From Perfect, But It’s More Democratic Than the U.S. and Most Other Countries

Hey, President Biden: Did California’s invitation to your Summit for Democracy get lost by your failing postal service?

Or did you just forget to put us on your list?

For all the complaints about the democracy summit from big countries that didn’t get invited—poor Russia, poor China—there was no bigger snub than the lack of invitation to California.

The Golden State isn’t just way more democratic than most of the countries you included, like increasingly authoritarian Poland, India, and the Philippines. California also has more people living under democracy than all but a …