Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom’s California in ‘Existential Freefall’

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

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California native Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the harsh realities of Newsom’s policies on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” From high taxes to a failing power grid, Hanson asks the critical question: Why is California becoming unsustainable? “The state started the year 2024 $76 billion in debt. You are now broke. Even that was not enough. What is your plan to address that? “We are in an existential freefall. And you as governor either can't or won't do anything about it. And if this continues, in another decade, this is going to be a completely medieval Third World society, if it isn't already.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gavin Newsom has had a series of podcast interviews and he's selected conservatives.
0:06.0	Steve Bannon was the most recent and they're asking him a series of questions.
0:10.0	But none of them seem to really get to the heart of the matter.
0:13.0	Why this state is a dysfunctional and unsustainable project.
0:18.0	The state started the year, $26 billion in death. You are now broke.
0:25.4	Even that was not enough. What is your plan to address that? Instead, we're talking about transgender
0:31.0	athletes and men participating in women's sports. Of all the great issues in the world,
0:36.9	that's nothing compared to what's going on in
0:39.0	California. And you as governor either can't or won't do anything about it.
0:58.8	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
1:07.3	Gavin Newsom, as I had mentioned earlier, has had a series of podcast interviews, and he's selected conservatives.
1:18.6	Charlie Hurt, Michael Savage, and others have been meeting with him. Steve Bannon was the most recent, and they're asking him a series of questions. But none of them seem to really get to the heart of the matter, and that is to ask Governor Newsom why this state is a dysfunctional and unsustainable project.
1:31.4	I'm not talking just about the $100 to $200 billion high-speed rail debacle.
1:38.6	I'm not even talking about Governor Newsom's blowing up of four dams on the Kalameth River took about a quarter of a
1:46.9	trillion dollars that he took out of a bond measures fund to do what to build reservoirs.
1:53.9	I'm not even talking about his cancellation or delaying of three reservoirs and Los Bannels Grandays, the Sites Reservoir, and Temperance Flat,
2:04.6	which would have given us in a year like this where we have ample rainfall and snowmelt,
2:11.6	about 5 million acre feet of storage, which would have come in handy in August.
2:16.6	I'm not talking about any of that.
2:18.8	I'm talking about the more dire catastrophes. Right now, the state started the year,
2:25.5	$2,024, $76 billion in debt. We have the highest income tax rate at 13.3. We have the highest gas taxes at nearly 70 cents a gallon.
2:41.7	We have among the highest sales taxes, property taxes. But here's my question. Right now, Governor Newsom, half of all births in California
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