As pomp and circumstance unfolded in the Capitol Rotunda for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, from the opposite coast, Gov. Gavin Newsom watched his own presidential dreams go up in smoke. Newsom now faces a much angrier electorate than his post-COVID lockdown voters who lost their businesses, livelihoods, and homes. This time the voters he may soon face lost the lives of family members and treasured pets, saw entire neighborhoods charred to the ground, and have nowhere to go but out of the state.
The smiling, tone-deaf governor of California was too busy trying to Trump-proof his state to notice his fire department first responders had no water with which to battle the raging flames that destroyed the Pacific Palisades, Hurst, and the unincorporated village of Eaton. The fires are not yet contained, although the Santa Ana winds that…
