{"id":1558920,"date":"2022-07-18T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558920"},"modified":"2022-07-18T07:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:19:48","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-gavin-newsom-thinks-california-is-a-model-for-america-we-better-hope-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victor-davis-hanson-gavin-newsom-thinks-california-is-a-model-for-america-we-better-hope-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom Thinks California Is a Model for America \u2014 We Better Hope Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvictor-davis-hanson-gavin-newsom-thinks-california-is-a-model-for-america-we-better-hope-not%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558920&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a run-up to what is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/28\/gavin-newsom-spurs-presidential-run-speculation-with-major-florida-ad-buy\/\">likely to be a 2024 presidential bid<\/a>, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in commercials <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/04\/gavin-newsom-launches-ads-urging-floridians-to-leave\/\">that California is America\u2019s true \u201cfree\u201d state.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/08\/desantis-accuses-newsom-of-treating-california-residents-like-peasants\/\">campaign is to attack Florida<\/a> \u2014 run by Newsom\u2019s possible rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, with the most burdensome regulations and high tax rates, Newsom\u2019s California is arguably the most unfree state in the union.<\/p>\n<p>In return for these steep costs, the state\u2019s public institutions, infrastructure and services are among the country\u2019s worst.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s once-vaunted freeway system is near the bottom of all state comparisons. The state\u2019s Highway 99, which runs the length of the Central Valley, is one of the deadliest roads in America based on miles driven.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/28\/progressive-policy-experiments-hurt-the-people-they-claim-to-help\/\">half of the nation\u2019s homeless crowd the state\u2019s major cities<\/a>. One-third of America\u2019s welfare recipients have flooded into the state. A fifth of the resident population lives below the poverty line. Well over a quarter of Golden State residents were not born in the United States.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22166727269385.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>California\u2019s cities contain half the nation\u2019s homeless population.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>California public school test scores fall among the bottom 10 states. San Francisco has the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/15\/2-suspects-arrested-in-connection-to-california-7-eleven-shootings\/\">highest per capita property crime rate<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The recently recalled San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and his soon-to-be recalled Los Angeles counterpart George Gascon have nearly ruined their cities. Both are iconic of multibillionaire George Soros\u2019 nationwide efforts to undermine the entire criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>State residents are not free from filthy and toxic sidewalks or <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/14\/gascon-abandoning-victims-by-scrapping-parole-unit\/\">dangerous physical assault in their cities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Public school children are not free to enjoy competitive educations. San Franciscans are not free to park their cars without fearing that they will be vandalized or stolen.<\/p>\n<p>The destruction of these freedoms is in direct proportion to the confiscatory taxes that the state collects \u2014 the highest bracket of income and gasoline rates in the nation, among the highest sales taxes, and property taxes that soar due to inflated assessments.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, California faces brownouts due to the long-standing, deliberate curtailment of electrical generation plants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Yosemite\u2019s historic redwood forest is currently threatened with what are now customary summer infernos.<\/p>\n<p>The destructive, dirty forest fires reflect a deliberate state policy of not cleaning the forests of dead trees, but rather letting the flammable debris serve as fodder for bugs and birds.<br \/>The state has not built a major reservoir in nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Amid Newsom\u2019s anti-Florida ad campaign, the governor was vacationing at the upscale digs of his Montana in-laws \u2014 escorted by his ample state-paid security detail. That is odd, given Newsom\u2019s California labels Montana a homophobic hellhole, and will not even reimburse state employees who dare to convention there.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Hypocrisy and elite virtue signaling, however, are trademarks of California politicians \u2014 and illustrate how little elected officials care for the victims of their ideological agendas.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom bragged about his tough California mask mandate although it did not lower COVID-19 deaths per capita in any measurable degree than did the policies of the red states he so often trashes. He violated his own COVID mandates by dining at the upscale French Laundry restaurant and hanging out unmasked with Magic Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom has done nothing to remedy his state\u2019s soaring gas prices, terrible schools and infrastructure, or spiking crime. But he did virtue signal about giving illegal aliens millions of state dollars in COVID relief.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than develop California\u2019s rich gas and oil reserves, Newsom promised motorists that he would send them a one-time fuel gift of $400.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., likewise, hectors Californians to mask and quarantine \u2014 all the better for her to sneak around unmasked at her hairdresser\u2019s, or to jet to Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p>So it is Orwellian for Newsom to brag about a \u201cfree\u201d California that supposedly will entice Floridians or Texans. In truth, over the last decades hundreds of thousands of Californians and billions of dollars of wealth fled.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom resembles a pathetic owner of a once successful, but now run-down, high-priced gas station without clients. In jealousy, he flails and screams at the newer, gleaming competitor across the street, with superior service, lower prices and better value \u2014 and jam-packed with his own former but now wiser customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Gov. 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