STEVE HILTON: Gavin Newsom leaves an unexpected legacy in California

Everywhere I spell successful America, erstwhile I archer radical I’m from California I get 1 of 2 reactions:

"You request to get retired of determination -- determination to determination little crazy!"

Or: "Why bash they support voting for that (fill successful your curse connection of choice…)?"

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Well, here’s the bully news: the answers to those 2 questions are present coming unneurotic successful a beauteous and affirmative prospect: existent governmental alteration successful the Golden State.

My reply to the archetypal question is typically: "Why should we leave? This is my home! I’m raising my household here; I started a concern here. Yes, our unspeakable authorities has turned everything into a catastrophe close now, but I emotion California. It’s not america who should leave, but the radical who did this to our state! The Democrat politicians: they request to leave office."

Then harvester that with however I’m present answering the 2nd question, astir wherefore radical inactive ballot for the aforesaid aged you-know-what: "Actually, they’re starting to ballot differently." 

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Look astatine the metropolis of Huntington Beach successful Orange County, the iconic ‘Surf City USA.’

Just implicit 4 years ago, a person of mine, long-time California Republican Tony Strickland (now a newly-elected State Senator), enactment unneurotic a slate of 4 energetic candidates to situation Democrat dominance of the metropolis council.

They pulled it off, taking power 4-3 successful the midterm elections successful 2022. They went connected to instrumentality common-sense blimpish policies connected crime, homelessness, and what’s taught successful schools. They adjacent introduced and passed a section ballot inaugural connected elector ID.

Guess what? In past November’s elections, they pulled disconnected a stunning cleanable sweep. The "MAGAnificent Seven", arsenic they called themselves, won each seat. Huntington Beach went from 6-1 Democrat power to 7-0 Republican.

There were different signs successful 2024 that a governmental gyration whitethorn beryllium brewing. 

Nearly a 5th of California’s counties (10 retired of 58) flipped from bluish to reddish successful 2024 including Fresno, the state’s 5th largest city.

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Proposition 36 (which reversed immoderate of the worst parts of erstwhile Vice President and California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ disastrous pro-crime Prop 47 from a fewer years earlier) passed with implicit 70% support. Soros-backed DAs similar George Gascon successful L.A. were kicked out.

Ballot initiatives to rise the minimum wage, enforce rent power and rise taxes were defeated.

And of course, President Donald Trump did amended successful California than immoderate Republican statesmanlike campaigner for decades.

Republican elector registration has besides been expanding portion Democrat registration has been falling.

And each of this was happening before the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires, which showed truthful galore radical the unspeakable consequences of what I telephone the caller DEI: Democrat Extremism and Incompetence.

It is Gov. Gavin Newsom who has presided implicit each this. He’s the 1 that enabled years of far-left insanity that gave California the highest poorness complaint successful America, the astir costly housing, gas, energy and water, the highest unemployment, lowest income maturation and worst concern climate.

The nationalist schools are a disaster, homelessness continues to spiral retired of control, the California Dream is retired of scope and the occurrence hydrants are retired of water.

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On Newsom’s watch, California has gone from being America’s crown jewel to its worst-run state. No fair-minded idiosyncratic could travel to immoderate different conclusion.

It’s each laid retired successful my caller book Califailure, on with the accompanying Fox Nation special. You should work the book: it’s a informing not to fto this hap successful your state. It shows precisely however the Democrats did it -- and however to halt it.

But the 2nd portion of my publication is called Califuture. In it, I laic retired a positive, applicable program for turning things around. Commonsense policies that volition halt the insane authorities bloat and nanny authorities bossiness that is making beingness a misery for each tiny concern and each family.

Of course, it volition lone hap if we really extremity the Democrats’ disastrous one-party regularisation and elite Republicans to statewide office, similar we utilized to earlier authorities unions and acold near activists got their stranglehold connected power.

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Thanks to the sheer standard of "Califailure," with zero motion of immoderate factual enactment from the Democrats to cleanable up the messiness they made, Republicans, for the archetypal clip successful 2 decades, truly bash person a changeable astatine winning successful 2026. A caller canvass showed that 48% of Californians would ballot for a Republican governor.

So, determination you are: this could good beryllium Gavin Newsom’s top legacy: flipping California red!

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