Memo to Governor Newsom: The Berkeley Riots Elected Ronald Reagan Governor

Memo to Governor Newsom: The Berkeley Riots Elected Ronald Reagan Governor Governor Pat Brown was salivating in his 1966 reelection campaign. He wanted to run against Ronald Reagan a “washed-up B Actor.” California voters were fed up with the riots at Berkeley, other campuses, and Watts. Ronald Reagan won in a landslide. He was on his way to the White House. Reagan received 57.5% of the vote with a winning margin of 993,739 votes. Gavin Newsom is term-limited out of office. The Democrats are lining up to succeed him. Only one, the former Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa, is running as a moderate. California may not be as progressive as they think. San Francisco recalled the radical District Attorney and the DEI Board of Election, and voted out the progressive Mayor London Brood. Los Angeles and Alameda County voters tossed progressive district attorneys out of office. Every Bay Area County voted for Prop 36, which recriminalizes crimes. Shoplifters and gangs of shoplifters, will no longer get a free pass. Governor Newsom opposed the referendum and refuses to fund the law. The anti-Ice riots may have had less actual violence against the federal officials - not as in previous large-scale L.A. riots, Watts in 1965, Rodney King in 1991, and George Floyd in 2020 were horrific, but the optics of rioters attacking federal facilities, waving Mexican flags, and taking over a major freeway will not help your nascent Presidential campaign. Do you understand that peaceful protests do not include looting an Apple Store and other retailers? Do you understand the federal government has the right to protect federal law enforcement officers and federal facilities? Do you understand the LAPD waited two hours before responding to a call for assistance by the federal ICE agents? Do you remember the 2020 LA riots? the looting and torching as police looked the other way. Do you remember Governor Walz not calling out the Minnesota National Guard as Minneapolis burnt, including a police station. Memo to Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass: President Trump is not popular with many Californians, but neither are you two. The Homeless debacle, the Altadena and Palisades Wildfires, the French Laundry, and now the LA riots, magnify your incompetence. The budget deficit, and soon large gas tax increase, all combined, may elect Republicans to state-wide and legislative elections. The 2026 Democratic primaries may not be a coronation next year. Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass, and Vice President Harris illustrate several principles. First, one party states, rather blue or red, often result in climbing the political ladder to the top. They are often not leaders. The same is true in the academic world and the peacetime military. Second is that they can lose touch with reality. They are so embedded in the political milieu, the echo chamber of their states. Third, they are correct in that these riots would not have occurred without the Trump immigration raids. Yes, they are correct. President Joe Biden never would have arrested and deported rapists, murderers, and pedophiles. Nor would President Biden have called out federal forces to combat riots. Governor Newsom, do you think the American people will accept your claim that the protests were peaceful until President Trump called out the National Guard? This example of George Orwell’s Big Lie is being repeated by several politicians. This riot is directed at the federal government enforcing federal law. No way would President Trump have ignored this direct attack on the federal government. Governor Newsom is daring President Trump to jail him. President Trump is smart enough not to make a martyr out of Governor Newsom. The real threat to our democracy is if San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Portland and perhaps Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and New York City break out with similar, uncontrolled riots. The President would be sorely tempted to call it an insurrection, followed by the suspension of Habeas Corpus. One final question Governor Newsom. Are you stupid? You’re seeking billions of dollars for the Bullet Train, recovery from the Alhambra and Palisades fires, and the current disturbances. Yet, you engage in harangues against President Trump.