Trump’s First 100 Days Shatter California’s Left-Wing Illusions

President Trump’s (second) first 100 days have generated some amount of horse excrement. It’s hard to see how it serves Trump’s interests to anger allies in advance of a trade war with China, to drive the economy into a possible recession, to glad-hand Russian strongman Putin while criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and to resort to phony “national security” claims when there are perfectly legal deportation orders in place.

But those willing to dig will indeed find a pony: In California, President Trump has pushed aside Governor Gavin Newsom and has driven the nation’s most populous state toward something approaching sanity.

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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President Trump’s (second) first 100 days have generated some amount of horse excrement. It’s hard to see how it serves Trump’s interests to anger allies in advance of a trade war with China, to drive the economy into a possible recession, to glad-hand Russian strongman Putin while criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and to resort to phony “national security” claims when there are perfectly legal deportation orders in place.

But those willing to dig will indeed find a pony: In California, President Trump has pushed aside Governor Gavin Newsom and has driven the nation’s most populous state toward something approaching sanity.