Liberals are finally saying the quiet part out loud: the Obama and Biden administrations were masterclasses in broken promises wrapped in pretty speeches. And now, even Ezra Klein—the New York Times columnist and progressive golden boy—is admitting it.

Klein sat down with none other than California Governor Gavin Newsom (America’s favorite hair gel enthusiast) on a podcast to lament the absolute failure of their own team to do anything useful with the massive power they’ve held for the last 15 years. Imagine the sadness—two liberal elites realizing that even their best laid plans were more bureaucratic gridlock than “hope and change.”

Klein, promoting his new book “Abundance” (ironic title for an era defined by shortages), confessed that both Obama and Biden sold a grand vision to Americans… and then promptly drowned that vision in red tape. His example? Biden’s supposed $42 billion investment in rural broadband from the 2021 infrastructure bill. After all the celebrating and press conferences, guess how many states actually got through the process to access the funds?

Three. Out of fifty-six jurisdictions.

That’s not just inefficiency. That’s a government that’s so bloated and self-absorbed it can’t even tie its own shoes without forming a committee and writing an environmental impact report.

Klein went further, pointing out the glaring failures of Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus plan from 2009. Remember when we were promised bullet trains, a modern electrical grid, and a revolution in digital health records? Klein summed it up in three painful words: “Yeah. 0-for-3.”

And this guy isn’t some disgruntled outsider. He helped shape the very media narrative that sold these dreams in the first place. Now he’s admitting what conservatives have been screaming for years: Democrats are great at creating vision boards but completely incapable of building anything that works.

But Newsom, ever the slippery operator, jumped in with his favorite brand of progressive nonsense: “At least there’s a vision,” he said. As if intentions count for more than results.

Sorry, Governor—nobody’s giving you a medal for thinking about doing your job. We don’t pay politicians for abstract hope. We pay them to deliver. And when that delivery date is always “someday,” what you’re left with is the smoldering crater of public trust.

Klein nailed it on one point: failure after failure is undermining the public’s faith in big government. Americans have watched the left blow billions on fantasy projects that never arrive while lecturing the rest of us about climate change, equity, and whatever identity group is trending this week.

You can’t build high-speed rail, but you sure can build bureaucracies that take 17 years to study the problem.

Klein said it best: “I don’t want to give anybody credit for a vision that didn’t happen.” Bingo. That should be stitched on a throw pillow and sent to every liberal policymaker from Sacramento to D.C.

The Democratic Party spent the better part of two decades promising transformational change. And what did Americans get in return? Gas stoves banned, biological men in women’s sports, a wide-open border, and inflation that makes your paycheck feel like Monopoly money.

Now, with President Trump back in the Oval Office, it’s clear the American people are tired of being told to clap for plans that never materialize. Trump’s approach isn’t “let’s form a task force.” It’s “get it done.” And that terrifies the professional visionaries who never deliver.

So welcome to the reality the rest of us have been living in, Mr. Klein. While your party chased unicorns and praised itself for thinking big, real Americans watched their cities rot, their freedoms shrink, and their trust in government vanish.

Maybe now that the liberal elite is finally waking up, we can get back to governing like adults. Or better yet, maybe it’s time to stop trusting the people who think vision is a substitute for competence.