Paul Krugman’s pathetic defense of Gavin Newsom | Washington Examiner
California is becoming increasingly unaffordable for residents who are not the highly educated, high-income workers that Krugman boasts are moving in. This is not some issue that can be thrown out in favor of California s policy successes. Krugman could certainly move to California and be just fine. But the California dream is becoming unreachable for lower- and middle-class Californians (which disproportionately affects black and Latino residents, in case you were wondering).
Newsom s COVID-19 hypocrisy may be what made the recall possible, but the cost of living is the fundamental issue in California, and it should be the fundamental issue in the recall. Krugman is right that California is a progressive success story. And that should be an indictment of him, Newsom, and the California Democratic Party s progressive agenda.