The Morning Briefing: None of This Is Playing Out the Way Gavin Newsom Thinks It Is

Life under Jerry Brown wasn't quite as bad, but the state had already become a Dem-run toilet. .. Los Angeles had a Republican mayor, and the state was in the midst of a 16-year run of Republican governors. But that was the 20th century. Good times. By the time I left, Kamala Harris was my new senator, and it was obvious that Newsom would be on his way to the governor's office. Oh, and Karen Bass was my representative in Congress. Yay me. California has been in a bit of a doom spiral since then. Its economy gets a built-in...