California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) wants you to believe his lawsuit to kill the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger is a principled stand for consumers. Look closer, and a different story emerges: political favors that benefit leftists and one company that will profit the most — Netflix — not the taxpayers footing the bill.On Monday, a Biden-appointed federal judge in the Northern District of California handed Bonta and 10 other Democratic state attorneys general a preliminary win in their bid to block the deal. As the Wall Street Journal editorial board laid out, that ruling flies in the face of the global antitrust consensus. So why is a state attorney general burning taxpayer dollars to fight a merger that regulators everywhere else have been willing to live with? Netflix tried to buy Warner Bros. itself. It lost. Now it dominates the streaming industry, and a combined Paramount-WBD is the single biggest competitive threat it faces. Block the merger, and Netflix’s monopoly position stays comfortably intact. What hasn’t been reported anywhere is exactly how tight the financial relationship is between the attorney general driving this lawsuit and the family of leftists who built Netflix.