California’s failures have Newsom growing desperate
Zachary Faria
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Whether he is preparing to jump in the 2024 election or is waiting for 2028, one thing is clear: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is desperately trying to salvage his future presidential chances.
This was made most clear over Newsom’s outburst on homelessness. California has been mired in a homelessness crisis, with the state spending billions of dollars on a problem that is only getting worse. Newsom decried that “federal courts block local efforts to clear street encampments — even when housing and services are offered. Courts must also be held accountable. Enough is enough.”
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One of the most notable aspects of this is that the federal judges Newsom is complaining about are Democratic-appointed judges, the result of the eight-year presidential tenures of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But Newsom wanted everyone to know this decision made him so upset that he almost published the phone number of one of these judges to urge millions of Californians to call that judge and object to these “insane rulings.”
On top of that, Newsom has now turned toward “dirty” energy to keep California from resorting to rolling blackouts again. California’s renewable energy dream has left the state’s grid weak, and Newsom is apparently tired of receiving blowback every time the grid fails. He has supported several extensions to gas-fired plants, and California is on the verge of expanding a natural gas storage facility that was responsible for the largest methane leak in U.S. history in 2015.
Newsom has also had to reverse course on his opposition to nuclear energy, extending the lifespan of the state’s lone remaining nuclear plant (solely responsible for nearly 10% of the state’s power) to avoid crashing the grid. Newsom does not want the blame for any future blackouts to hound his future presidential campaign, and so he is silently renouncing the dogma of the climate cult to ensure that “dirty” energy keeps the lights on.
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Between that and his attempts to pass off blame for the state’s homelessness crisis on Democratic judges, it is clear that Newsom is scrambling to keep his future political prospects alive. He has been all but running a shadow campaign in case President Joe Biden shows enough weakness that he can jump in, and he wants to keep his name alive for the 2028 presidential election once his term in California expires in 2026.
The political pitfalls presented by California’s failures are finally settling in for Newsom. He is desperately trying to swim against the tide that he was unaware was flushing him out to sea, even if it means renouncing (publicly on homelessness or silently on energy) the liberal principles of California’s Democratic governance. It’s all a cynical, desperate attempt to avoid answering for the consequences of the California Democratic agenda that Newsom unapologetically supported.