by Eric Early
Gavin Newsom’s embarrassing, childish response to President Trump’s bold Los Angeles-protecting actions has given the floundering governor something he may not have wanted: Try as he might to appear moderate, Newsom is now the gel-haired face of the crazy, radical left’s resistance. But Newsom’s record in California is so bad and so authoritarian that the majority of American voters, with the exception of those on the far left fringes, won’t be fooled.
Like Kim Jung Un and Chairman Xi, Chairman Newsom has lorded over California like a tin-pot dictator since the day he was first sworn in as governor. The state legislature has had a far left “supermajority” allowing passage of every Newsom-inspired bill over the years, despite the valiant efforts of strong Republican legislators who simply don’t have the numbers to stop them; not to mention 90 percent of the media falling in line behind him, and the support of California’s all powerful public employee unions who Newsom has bought with billions of our taxpayer dollars.
Newsom pulled from obscurity a toady Communist sympathizer named Rob Bonta to be Attorney General, to replace his previous lacky Xavier Becerra (the guy who Biden made Secretary of HHS because he is Latino, calling him “Xavier Bacaria”), causing them to spend millions of California’s non-existent dollars litigating and most often losing cases that Newsom demanded be filed. He locked up virtually all Californians (except himself), refused to reopen schools for a year longer than red states, imposed vaccine mandates, and shuttered places of worship during COVID, while his incompetent administration was defrauded of $25 billion. Newsom’s reign has been as close to uni-party Communist control as exists in America. Yet predictably, when he gets cornered as he is now, he claims he is fighting for democracy.
The results speak for themselves — hundreds of laws that have allowed California’s political class to regulate the once Golden State into the bottom ranks of every major indicator of a state’s health: failed economic policies putting California on the verge of bankruptcy, destruction of California’s once thriving fossil fuel industry causing the highest gas prices in the nation, worst and most woke schools in the nation, highest taxes and building costs in the nation, one of the highest crime rates in the nation, defunding county and local police forces statewide, boys in girls sports, teachers prevented from telling parents of their kids’ sexual confusion while being encouraged to sexualize every minute of their educations, destruction of single family suburban zoning laws, the multi-billion dollar bullet train to nowhere, “Sanctuary State” laws protecting alien criminals, billions in healthcare payments for non-Americans, the explosion of homelessness, you name it, with more horribles still to come.
Newsom often tries to deflect by telling all who will listen that California has the world’s fourth-largest economy, all but saying that he is world-class leadership material. But tell me — when was the last time the leader of a top 3 economic nation (or even a top 10 for that matter), got on their knees like Newsom repeatedly does, begging for money to pay for the cost of national disasters. Major economic powers do not beg other powers for such financial help, but Newsom does because he has ground California’s “fourth largest economy” into the mud.
By any measure, Newsom’s dictatorship has been an abject failure and has virtually destroyed California. Millions of Californians are facing hardships like never before; many are furious, many are scared, many can no longer pay their bills, and many have simply moved out. Yet, Newsom is seemingly oblivious to it all – all the pain, all the destruction, all the fear, all the anger his policies have led to — still acting like he is the main man of the moment and of America’s future. What a joke.
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And so, it is with great pleasure that we have watched California’s tin-pot Xi Jinping get taken to the woodshed by Donald Trump. Everyone in America with a brain who has been watching, knows Newsom has horrendous judgment and if left to his own devices, whether by accident or design, would have allowed recent events to spiral into the tragic 2020 “Summer of Love,” where major sections of Los Angeles were looted and burned to the ground with many members of law enforcement seriously injured. Trump certainly knows this. And so, like a patient father who has reached the end of his rope with a privileged, spoiled, and troubled son, Trump has taken Newsom to the woodshed and given him the public spanking that has been at least seven years in the making. Trump sent the Feds into Los Angeles and is teaching Newsom how to protect Americans, and then signed a bill revoking Newsom’s EV car mandate, sparing Californians from being forced to buy cars they don’t want.
King Newsom has been throwing a non-stop tantrum the whole time. How dare anyone stop the valiant defender of democracy from doing anything and everything he wants? Get used to it, Gavin Newsom. Thankfully for California, Trump’s spanking will continue until, by the grace of God and term limits, California will finally be freed of the long Newsom nightmare. And America will — even if the far left America haters won’t — send him packing once and for all.
Eric Early is a former Republican Candidate for California Attorney General and for U.S. Senate. He is an attorney and Managing Partner of Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP which is headquartered in Los Angeles.
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