It’s a blunt tool — but it’s the only one available for delivering a rebuke to Gavin Newsom in a state with an entrenched political monoculture.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a princeling of progressivism, who has ascended to the summit of political power in one of the bluest states in the country, and yet is in real danger of suffering the most humiliating electoral rebuke possible.
Recall is a well-established feature of the California system. It has been in the state’s Constitution since 1911, and, of course, was used most recently when Gray Davis was recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. If there is no credible Democrat among the replacement candidates, that was a deliberate strategic choice of the party to make the recall a contest between an impeccably progressive governor and a motley group of Republicans. The calculation may pay off, but it is a risk that makes the Elder scenario plausible.
Newsom has done nothing to change the status quo, only entrench it, while adding his own unique high handedness and ideological fixity. He wouldn’t face a recall at all if it weren’t for his instantly notorious dinner at French Laundry. This isn’t the most significant of his lapses, but breaking several of his own Covid rules at one of the finest restaurants in the country—the wine bill reportedly came to $12,000—was going to engender a fierce reaction.
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