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Xavier Becerra: An Unextraordinary Man Desperate for Extraordinary Power

Xavier Becerra is the embodiment of the modern California Democrat: a career politician who climbed from longtime congressman to state attorney general to Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services without ever demonstrating medical expertise, executive talent, or a serious record of solving any difficult problems. 

What he has always possessed in spades, however, is partisan reliability and a reflexive instinct for power—an instinct on full display during the recent California gubernatorial primary debate. 

Confronted with California’s collapsing homeowner insurance market—carriers fleeing, premiums soaring, entire regions left uninsured—Becerra offered a simple solution: declare a “state of emergency” and freeze rates by decree.

When pressed on the legality of such a move, he showed open contempt for constitutional limits. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton asked Becerra incredulously if he had even read the statute governing gubernatorial emergency powers. Those powers exist for earthquakes, raging wildfires, and genuine catastrophes—not for the predictable consequences of years of bad policy. 

Becerra’s answer was frightening in its candor. “When you declare a state of emergency, you have extraordinary powers,” he replied, as though uttering the phrase magically suspends the rule of law. 

Becerra promised to haul insurance executives into his office, impose a freeze, launch investigations, and dare the courts to stop him. This was not a policy proposal; It was a declaration of intent to rule by fiat whenever democratic deliberation proves inconvenient.

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