Gavin Newsom’s California: Detroit on the Pacific?

Commentary As we head toward the March 5 election, an important new article by Steven Malanga compares the city of my birth, Detroit, with the state in which I have lived for 37 years, California, as well as other states adopting leftist policies driving out their people. It’s a good lens through which to see what’s really going on. Next to a picture of Gov. Gavin Newsom, “The Dead-End Left” is the article’s headline, with the subheadline, “Amid the surging success of GOP states, political shifts make course corrections hard for Democratic enclaves.” He covers from a different angle some of the topics I have covered here in The Epoch Times, such as in “Manhattanization of California Advances.”...