Episode 387: San Francisco’s ‘New Pragmatism’

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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With the election of former member of congress Barbara Lee for mayor, Oakland voters have brought the pain (to themselves) while San Francisco Democrats are calling for a “new pragmatism.” Also: Newsom sues Trump over tariffs while doing his absolute best to kill business in California. Music by Metalachi.

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:13.0	That's California for welcome to the April 22nd edition of National Review's Radio Free California Podcast.
0:19.0	I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy Center.
0:22.6	You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org.
0:26.4	You can find my friend and co-host, David Bonson, right here.
0:29.0	He's an economist.
0:29.9	He's the host of the Capitol Record podcast, an author of the book, Full Time, Work and the
0:34.1	Meaning of Life.
0:34.7	And, of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bunsen Group. Good morning, David. Where do we find you? Good morning, Will, from Dallas, Texas,
0:44.0	the newest site of a TBG office. And I will add one of the greatest cities in America.
0:52.9	Why do you say that?
0:57.0	Not just because you're there in opening a new office, I presume.
0:59.9	Well, it's sort of a backwards thing there.
1:02.7	We're not, it's not the greatest city because we're opening an office here.
1:05.1	We're opening an office here because it's one of the greatest cities.
1:09.2	And it's one of the greatest cities for a lot of reasons.
1:11.5	First of all, I love cities.
1:18.6	And it is a city that has a real kind of red state sensibility to it.
1:22.1	But it's also very cosmopolitan.
1:25.4	It's very Texan.
1:28.2	And those two things are not at odds.
1:31.7	There's a certain style about it that people that are from here know what I mean.
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