While Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is out complaining about racism and bigotry in other states, it turns out that hate crimes have surged in supposedly tolerant California during his tenure.
According to the Public Policy Institute of California, reported hate crimes (described as “crimes with reasonable evidence of motivation based on a victim’s race/ethnicity, gender, or other personal characteristics”) reached a low in 2014. The numbers had been slowly increasing since 2014, but they spiked in 2019, Newsom’s first term in office. Hate crimes in California have since doubled from 2019 to 2022, the duration of Newsom’s first term.
This cannot be dismissed as California being a haven of racist right-wingers, for the obvious reason of it being “progressive” California and because the hate crimes the state has seen are coming from liberal cities. Sacramento and Los Angeles saw record levels of hate crimes in 2022, and San Francisco became a hotbed for anti-Asian hate crimes. These are progressive Democratic-run cities in a progressive Democratic-run state that has no Republicans serving in any statewide elected position.
To recap: Under Newsom, homelessness in California has increased. Drug overdose deaths have more than doubled. California lost population for the first time in the state’s 170-year history under Newsom. Violent crime has increased and has jumped even further above the national average. And now, we know that hate crimes have more than doubled during Newsom’s tenure. Is there anything in California that has gotten better with Newsom in charge?
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This is one of the biggest problems with Newsom trying to become a national brand ambassador for the Democratic Party, going around lecturing Republican-run states such as Florida or Texas while he has overseen a noticeable decline in just about every area of his state under his watch. California under Newsom is a state run by liberal…
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