California and New York City announced the mandates for their employees, while the Department of Veterans Affairs said frontline health care workers must get vaccinated or face possible termination.

In contrast to New York voters favoring a "democratic socialist," Californians chose Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and other moderate Democrats.

New York City bled manufacturing jobs and middle-class residents and went bankrupt. Upstate’s powerful manufacturing cities—Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse—saw similar population declines and ...