Gov. Newsom seems like the latest in a long line of “small men in big offices.”
A sign is displayed as the East Turkistan Awakening Movement holds a rally outside the White House against the Chinese Communist Party to coincide with the 73rd National Day of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. They protest against oppression by the Chinese government against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in far-western Xinjiang province.
The most glaring problem with Newsom’s words is that they are self-evidently not so, plus he’s not convincing anyone of anything with his cram-down approach to climate policy. Historically, California has indeed been a place that beckoned people from across the world – aYet our government knows little else beyond stifling regulation and punitive taxation. Across the globe, people tend to flee more-oppressive places for freer locales.
It’s nothing new for governors to parade on the international stage, whether or not they are running for president. Formerwent to China on in 2017 to give a keynote address at some energy conference, and made this overwrought pronouncement: “Nothing is more difficult. Nothing is more important. … We’re talking about turning around the whole of modernity.”
Not that Republicans have gotten this statesmanship thing down, either. Donald Trump’s narcissism is the opposite of statesmanship (and he lavished praise onNewsom’s words from China: “Addressing climate change can be the bridge we’ve been missing.” Then again, former Gov. Reagan was a statesman and current
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