At least we get a little relief as the Legislature is in recess until August.

The surge in retail theft has unexpectedly become Sacramento’s hottest political issue. Last week, Democratic lawmakers attempted to place a measure on the ballot to compete with a tougher anti-crime measure backed by district attorneys and retail stores.

Thank Sacramento for compounding this problem.

This is a crisis of the Democrat’s own doing.

Defenders of the administrative state seem to assume that federal agencies inerrantly target greedy villains who bilk the unwary, undermine public safety or threaten the environment.

We’ll see. Smearing half the country as enemies of democracy is an unproven strategy in a national election.

Democrats at every level of the ballot, in competitive races all over the country, should be worried if Joe Biden does not drop out before their convention in August.

When ordinary Californians trying and failing to build something complain to the Legislature about the petty, nothing-to-do-with-the-environment constraints of the 50-year-old California Environmental Quality Act, their elected representatives tell them to shut up and just swallow the red tape.

For now, businesses can breathe a sigh of relief but there is still much more work to be done to curb lawsuit abuse in our state.

Be careful that your short-term victories don’t cause you 40 years of sorrow.