{"id":325337,"date":"2021-08-16T03:31:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/california-democrats-are-failing-the-basic-test-of-governance\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T03:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:31:16","slug":"california-democrats-are-failing-the-basic-test-of-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/california-democrats-are-failing-the-basic-test-of-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"#California Democrats are failing the basic test of governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#California Democrats are failing the basic test of governance<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Will Gov. Gavin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om be the second Democratic governor of California to be recalled and removed from office in this (or the last) century? Polls suggest it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a startling result. We have just seen the second consecutive Democratic governor of\u00a0New York ousted over sexual misconduct. It would be more politically significant for a second consecutive Democratic governor of California to get the boot for policy reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Gray Davis, the governor recalled in 2003, had entered office determined to check the hyper-liberal legislature. But overspending got through anyway, and he backed driver\u2019s licenses for illegal immigrants; he was also hurt by blackouts caused by a botched deregulation scheme he had no part in creating.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom\u2019s problems have a similar ring. He was elected in 2018 with 62 percent of the vote, the strongest showing since Earl Warren won his third term with 65 percent in 1950. There was little <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>etite for a recall last spring. But the most recent three polls this summer show 46 percent favoring recall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why the shift? SurveyUSA polls showed Latinos, a quarter of the electorate, moving from opposing to backing recall. Berkeley polls show a similar trend among Latinos and Asians. The most recent Emerson poll shows Latinos favoring recall by\u00a054 percent to 41 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subgroup analysis is risky, because of high margins of error. But as Auric Goldfinger told James Bond, \u201conce is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.\u201d Similar trends in three different polls looks like something real.<\/p>\n<p>This movement against liberal policies makes sense once you realize that even low-income voters are less interested in economic redistribution than in the maintenance of order. Newsom, in a testy interview with McClatchy newspapers, boasts of the state\u2019s large earned-income tax credit, but his lockdown policies have kept California\u2019s unemployment rate at 7.7 percent, higher than all but three other states.<\/p>\n<p>The income and wealth gaps in California, much greater than in most other states, were symbolized when Newsom broke his own rules and dined maskless indoors with lobbyists at the Michelin-three-star restaurant French Laundry last November.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/venice-homeless.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"People riding bikes past a homeless encampment in Venice, Los Angles on June 29, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19140129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/venice-homeless.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/venice-homeless.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/venice-homeless.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People riding bikes past a homeless encampment in Venice, Los Angles on June 29, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Against this background of the well-connected rich \u2014 Newsom\u2019s core constituency is San Francisco Bay-area big contributors \u2014 consider other results of California\u2019s liberal policies. Some have resulted in visible disasters, like wildfires and electricity blackouts, while others \u2014 high housing prices and utility rates \u2014 loom large for modest-income households while easily brushed off by the rich.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Homeless men by the thousands live under freeway overpasses or in stretches of Venice beachfront, \u00addespite (actually, because of) multimillion-dollar homeless programs. Thugs run through the aisles of chain drug stores filling their bags with goods they haul out, under security guards\u2019 eyes, to waiting cars \u2014 the result of California voters\u2019 lunatic approval of reclassifying thefts under $950 as misdemeanors, not felonies.<\/p>\n<p>California hasn\u2019t been immune either from the unprecedented \u2014 at least since statistics started being collected in 1960 \u2014 rise in homicides and other violent crimes. In response, Los Angeles partially defunded the police, and radical district attorneys elected in Los Angeles and San Francisco counties have declined to prosecute thousands of cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/larry-elder.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Radio host Larry Elder may be Gov. Newsom's strongest competition in the recall election.\" class=\"wp-image-19140134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/larry-elder.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/larry-elder.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/larry-elder.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Radio host Larry Elder may be Gov. Newsom\u2019s strongest competition in the recall election.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Marcio Jose Sanchez, Fi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>California\u2019s Latinos, mostly the product of a 1982-2007 surge of \u00admigration from Mexico, may be \u00adresponding to this disorder as California\u2019s white homeowners, mostly the product of a 1940-1965 surge of migration from the Midwest, responded to the disorder of the Watts riots and Berkeley rebellions of the 1960s. The voters who had supported the liberal policies of Democratic Gov. Pat Brown switched in large numbers in 1966 to the conservative former Midwesterner Ronald Reagan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no Reagan on the scene, unless it\u2019s radio talk host Larry Elder, who seems ahead in the race to succeed Newsom if he\u2019s recalled. It\u2019s entirely possible that Newsom will be able to rally enough Dems to stay in office. But his current ads attacking former President Donald Trump don\u2019t seem more effective than 1966 attempts to claim Reagan was another Barry Goldwater.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: The first duty of government is to provide a stable order in which people can live their lives. California\u2019s liberal Democrats seem to be flunking.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Gavin Newsom be the second Democratic governor of California to be recalled and removed from office in this (or the last) century? Polls suggest it\u2019s possible. It would be a startling result. We have just seen the second consecutive Democratic governor of\u00a0New York ousted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/gavin-newsom.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[114280,13096,10701,73109],"class_list":["post-325337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-15-21","tag-california","tag-democrats","tag-gavin-newsom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}