Arizona voters approved a slate of conservative ballot measures — protecting girls' spaces, banning photo radar, restricting grocery taxes, and designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations — even as they handed control of the state House and Senate to Democrats. The split verdict proves the populist mandate is real; it's the Republican politicians who can't deliver it.
The results lay bare the gap between what working Americans want and what the uniparty is willing to give them. Voters went around their GOP legislators to pass policy directly through ballot propositions, then turned those same legislators out of power. Democrats now control both chambers. The question is whether they'll honor what voters just mandated — or bury it.
The wins were not narrow. Proposition 318, the
