Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom Exposes the Left’s Rotten Core

Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom Is the Mask Slipping Off the Left

Gavin Newsom smiles like a statesman, talks like a savior—but governs like a spoiled oligarch cosplaying as a populist.

Victor Davis Hanson pulls the curtain back on the left’s golden boy: a man who calls ICE “reckless,” who watches his cities burn while preaching moral superiority. The left claims to fight for the little guy—but they dine at French Laundry while the middle class flees. Newsom isn’t an outlier—he’s the model: polished, privileged, and utterly insulated from the disasters he creates.

Trump calls him “utterly incompetent.” Hanson calls him the face of a deeper rot.

From Maxine Waters calling for mob pressure to Stacey Abrams still pretending she won Georgia, the playbook is the same: fail up, deflect accountability, and weaponize victimhood. And in the end, the people who suffer most are the ones the left pretends to defend.

The emperor has no clothes—and Victor is naming names.