Yes, he has Pat Riley’s hair. Yes, he seems not to care about the propriety of doing a photo-op at somebody’s burning residence. Yes, enough signatures were collected to begin a recall campaign against him last year. Yes, the middle class is fleeing California. Yes, the state’s cities are becoming a Dickensian tableau of the ultra-rich and the poor.
But Gavin Newsom is still dangerous, and conservatives would be foolish to dismiss his prospects for (even) higher office just because we’re enamored with a promising governor of our own on the opposite coast.
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