“Nobody has been dealt a tougher hand than Gavin Newsom,” Gray Davis, the former California Democratic governor who was recalled in 2003, said in an interview. “Look, I had the energy crisis and a recession. He has a pandemic we haven’t seen for 100 years. He has the fallout from that pandemic, racial injustice, wildfires, and I think I’m leaving something out. But nobody, no living governor, has had to experience as many crises as him.”
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It may not be the only thing about to fall apart. In a crisis of competence “bad luck” cascades. Things go bankrupt gradually then all of a sudden. It was striking how the Capitol Police collapsed.
The populist challenge is primarily a symptom of the system’s weakness not its cause. The most worrisome thing is that nobody seems to know how deep the rot goes.
