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The Newsom Nightmare: Why California’s Elites Refuse to Face Reality

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.   

We’ve had a series of debates on the future of California, at least in venues for the mayoral race in Los Angeles, in which, the outsider Spencer Pratt challenged Karen Bass, the mayor, and Councilman Nithya Raman, both hard leftists.  

And then we had these—a series of gubernatorial debates in which we had just two conservatives, Chad Bianco, the sheriff from Southern California, and Steve Hilton, Fox commentator. 

And they were arrayed against Kathleen Porter, Xavier Becerra, Antonio Villaraigrosa, and, in addition, Tom Steyer. Now, there’s a common thread to all of this, none of the people on the Democratic side want to talk about any issues. In the mayoral race, neither Bass nor Raman wanted to talk about what happened in the LA fire or why Karen Bass was in Ghana, or we don’t want to talk about why the reservoirs were empty or the hydrants not working or it was against the law to remove brush or the conduct of the fire department—or the vice mayor phoning in a bomb threat. 

So when the mayor was gone, the vice mayor was under arrest. There was nobody in control of the city. Nobody wants to talk about the highest taxes on gas in the nation, the highest income tax. Nobody wants to talk about one-third of all the welfare recipients here. Almost half the nation’s homeless are here. 

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The high-speed rail, $250 billion boondoggle without a foot of track laid. Probably $250 billion wasted in various government entitlement frauds administered by the state. I could go on and on, but when Spencer Pratt tried to mention these things and ask them why you did this or what… They don’t want to talk about it. 

They don’t want to talk about because for 20 years, they’ve had a super majority in the legislature in........

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