This was a working class area - democrats don’t give a damn about them... Remember the train wreck?
“This was a working class area”
Most of downtown Lahaiana was a dump. Crappy old buildings and apartments that blue collar workers lived in. The bigger resort hotels are north of there in Kannapoli and Kapalua or south in Wailea/Makena. Lahaina was where a lot of the people who worked in the tourist industry lived.
Many of those crappy old houses had been in the same family for a long time. Now, that they are gone many will be forced to sell because they have no other choice.
Right now, all the local pols are scared because the rumors are that there are thousands of DEAD people. Not just 100. That many are children and elderly people who died in their homes while the working parents were still at their jobs.
That there was no warning to evacuate.
There are going to be locals calling for their heads. With good reason. Someone is going to be blamed. It could be criminal negligence.