Californians are growing increasingly frustrated with Governor Gavin Newsom’s expanding and seemingly endless overreach of powers. Newsom began his quest to control nearly all aspects of his citizens’ lives — from how they cook and eat to how they work — long before the COVID pandemic began. He then used his perpetual emergency powers under the pandemic to dramatically accelerate this process.
Newsom’s means of broadening his control tend to fit a common formula: identify simple things that normal people consider to be their rights, treat those rights as privileges, take them away, and perhaps force people to behave the right way (as defined by Newsom) to earn those privileges back.
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