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Why Californicating the United States isn't going well
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New York lost more residents from July 2022 to July 2023 than California, almost 102,000 compared to 75,423, according to the Census Bureau.
But it’s the Golden State that has written the how-not-to guide. It’s the trend setter of blue state public policy, “known today for incubating ever more elaborate forms of wokeness and identity politics,” says Walter Russell Mead, as well as coercive government actions pursuing the electeds’ vision of Camelot.
When a little more than a year ago the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College surveyed Californians who had expressed an interest in moving, “many respondents from across the political spectrum described concerns about the cost of living and other aspects of the economy.”
For the first time ever, California, under Gov. Gavin Newsom, has lost population for three years in a row. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
While “Republicans described concerns about politics and policy,” “very few Democrats did.” This should not be unexpected.
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However, the response from “one independent from near Santa Barbara” seems representative of a middle that is fed up. This person declared that California “is run by morons.”
Between the day (Sept. 9, 1850) it was admitted into the union and 2020, California’s population increased every year. It has now lost population for three straight years. From April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023, the state suffered a net loss of 573,019 residents. Over that same period, New York’s population withered by 631,104.
Other states have lost people, as well, since the pandemic arrived. Most of them have been blue states, with red states taking in the refugees. As Power Line’s John Hinderaker puts it, Americans have voted red with their feet. The top destinations have been Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia, red states all of them.
In addition to California and New York, other big losers have been Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland – all blue states, and all in awe of California’s legislative and regulatory patterns. As the New York Times noted in April 2022, state officials “love to declare that California is a leader in everything,” including “spearheading the resistance” to red states’ legislative agendas, which is a legislative agenda of its own.
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The Los Angeles Times made a similar argument when it declared “no state has had a bigger impact on the direction of the United States than California, a prolific incubator and exporter of outside-the-box policies and ideas.”
In one of the more prominent instances of emulating Sacramento, several other states followed California’s “lead” in outlawing gasoline- and diesel-powered automobiles and replacing them with, almost exclusively, electric vehicles.
The list of imitators includes Massachusetts (which lost 31,534 residents from April 2020 to July 2023), New Jersey (which had a modest overall gain of 1,802 but lost more than 153,000 domestically) and New York (-631,104), all of which emulated California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who unilaterally decided in September 2020 that he could make consumers’ decisions for them. (His executive order was approved two years later by the state’s unelected Air Resources Board.)
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Could be that there’s no causation, merely correlation, but maybe people are fleeing California for states where governors aren’t telling them what they cannot drive and what they must drive. Because outside of the laptop class, EVs are unpopular. Buyers don’t want them.
Other climate-related laws – legitimately passed and signed, not decreed – have also filtered outside of California. Bloomberg Law recently reported the state’s “first-in-the-nation measures requiring companies to disclose financial risks related to climate and report greenhouse gas emissions could embolden other states to take similar action in an effort to address climate change.”
Imitating California policies will inevitably impose a punishing cost of living driven by steep energy prices (inflated even further by the growing renewables fetish), exorbitant housing, excessive taxation, and labor compensation set artificially high by government; cut into businesses’ profits (and force them to make uncomfortable decisions, such as escape to more liberating states); stifle entrepreneurship; restrict liberties; invite homelessness; and subject millions to inept governance.
None of these are reasons to stay. All are reasons to flee.
California’s declining population means that along with a shrinking congressional delegation (the state could lose as many as five U.S. House seats by 2030), it’s likely losing some degree of its political influence across the country. If that means its capacity to advance progressive, blue state policies beyond its borders has been diminished, it’s good news. The entire country will be better off.
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- San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello faces mounting criticism after his recent public remarks about his team’s performance.
- Vitello’s approach has begun to fracture the unity within the clubhouse just as the season heads toward a critical juncture.
- The front office now weighs whether to make broader changes or let the rookie manager work through his growing pains.
The San Francisco Giants lost five straight games heading into Sunday’s contest against the Colorado Rockies. While Rafael Devers has turned his season around to some degree, the same cannot be said of manager Tony Vitello, whose antics have put him between a rock and a hard place. Vitello’s hiring was a controversial one to begin with, as he had no big-league experience but thrived at the collegiate level with the Tennessee Volunteers. Buster Posey surely couldn’t have seen this season’s struggles coming.
Vitello hasn’t maintained his composure well this season, and it’s starting to impact the Giants clubhouse as this season fades into obscurity. Posey himself has stayed relatively quiet on Vitello’s future, and if Giants fans had their way he’d likely be a one-and-done manager. Vitello’s players, to their credit, have stayed together…until now. Over the weekend, the first-time MLB manager questioned his players’ effort and pride, a tactic that may have worked for him in Knoxville but will surely backfire in a larger market like San Francisco.
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The Giants took a 6-3 lead in Friday’s game against the Rockies, but eventually blew that advantage in an 8-6 defeat. They fell behind quickly on Saturday in Colorado as well.
There’s only so much a manager can do to shoulder blame when his players aren’t performing up to par. However, blaming them to the media isn’t going to sit well in the clubhouse.
“We need to take a little more pride, I think, in how we…It’s ideal to not have last night occur, but bounce back,” Vitello told the media. “I got the vibe like we were in a position to do that. The first six outs we had at the plate would say that, but getting in a hole makes it a little tougher after that.”
Vitello isn’t necessarily wrong in his commentary of the Giants’ play of late, and even what he perceives as a lack of effort. However, he’d be wise to keep that criticism internal and call clubhouse leaders into his office to better apply that feedback.
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Speaking of fair criticism, this is one the players could surely push back onto their first-time manager: Vitello is in over his head. The Giants have already reassigned third-base coach Hector Borg in a wake-up call of sorts. If that doesn’t work — and the five straight losses suggest it hasn’t — then perhaps larger changes are looming.
Posey could opt to sell at the trade deadline. While Devers and Willy Adames are likely here to stay thanks to their large contracts, Robbie Ray is an attractive trade asset for contending teams and is on the final year of his deal. FanSided’s Chris Landers ranked Ray ninth on his trade deadline big board just last week.
“Ray…is an open and shut case: He’s in the final year of his five-year contract, and while he’s no longer the power pitcher he was in his prime, he’s still got gas left in the tank as a No. 4 starter who could even pivot to a valuable bullpen role in the postseason,” Landers wrote.
Posey and the Giants should not rush to panic and fire Vitello in season. Doing so defeats the entire purpose of hiring him. Vitello is learning on the job. Perhaps he’ll find his footing in the dog days of summer. Criticizing his own players, who thus far have had his back, isn’t a step in the right direction.
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The Seattle Seahawks lost a key member of the front office to the Minnesota Vikings, as the NFC North team named Nolan Teasley its new general manager. The hire could change the fortunes of both teams in the immediate future.
Teasley will be taking over a Vikings team that isn’t far away from contending. One of the key reasons the team fired former GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah wasn’t that he couldn’t build a collection of talent, but that he didn’t seem to understand how to get the best possible answer at the most important position in sports: Quarterback.
Vikings fans watched as former QB1 in Minnesota, Sam Darnold, signed with the Seahawks last offseason, and then followed that by helping lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. That was Seattle’s second title. Minnesota has never won a Super Bowl.
Minnesota Vikings hire Nolan Teasley from the Seattle Seahawks
Teasley, though, has the experience and, clearly, the ability to create an environment in which a team will thrive. He has been working with general manager John Schneider in Seattle since 2013, and has worked in scouting and been the director of pro personnel. He has most recently served as Schneider’s assistant GM.
Schneider could very well be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame one day after leading the Seahawks to two Super Bowl wins. Still, with teams with two completely different rosters and coaching staffs (Schneider is the only GM to ever do that), Teasley would have learned at the knee of one of the best to ever perform general manager duties.
Nolan Teasley could also be entering a situation where his new team is already poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. Minnesota finished 9-8 last season despite the fact that its quarterback play was among the worst in the NFL. This offseason, the Vikings signed Kyler Murray.
Murray underwhelmed or was injured throughout his career with the Arizona Cardinals, as Seattle Seahawks fans know well due to their favorite team counting on two wins every season against the NFC West brethren, but under the wise direction of Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell, Murray could be coaxed into playing a much better form of football.
As the Minnesota Vikings play in the NFC, and could potentially be a difficult obstacle for the Seahawks to repeat as Super Bowl champions, Teasley is already in a good spot. The issue for Seattle is that Teasley is smart enough to make moves to get Minnesota even better well into the future. A great rivalry between Seattle and the Vikings might be about to start.
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