Gavin Newsom’s California Is A Warning, Not a Model | City Journal
California s natural beauty and balmy climate are the envy of every state. Yet a strange thing has happened over the last two years: for the first time in state history, California has begun to shrink.
You wouldn t know it from Governor Gavin Newsom s air of public confidence. In the last few weeks, Newsom accepted a national award for education transformation and ran political ads to warn Floridians that their freedom is under attack. In both cases, he offered California s progressive model as the right fit to reform the rest of America.
But his proud rhetoric doesn t match California s declining reality. Americans are voting with their feet to reject Newsom s California model and heading to the very states that he criticizes.
As I get older, I come to appreciate the climate here in San Diego more and more. Sadly, everything you hear about the political climate here is true.