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POLITICS: Gavin Newsom and Zohran Mamdani can bring about the ruin of California and New York

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It was in December 1777 that the great Scottish economist Adam Smith learned of General Burgoyne’s defeat at Saratoga. Smith’s correspondent said that he feared Smith’s own nation of Great Britain, was ruined.

The economist’s reply was: “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

Ever since that quote became famous, it has been both consoling and misleading. Consoling because it is true that while some people always claim the sky is falling down, more often than not, it stays up perfectly nicely. Adam Smith’s own nation more than survived the defeat at Saratoga.

At the same time, the quote is misleading. Nations cannot cope with an infinite amount of ruin. Cities and states can tolerate even less.

In our own country, there are many politicians who think that US cities in particular can put up with almost anything.

Take Governor Gavin Newsom of California. In recent days, he has been trying to “win” the internet. That’s because, having failed at his job of governing an actual state, he seems to have decided to become chief troll online. Democrat pundits are “LOLing” all over the place at Newsom’s alleged brilliance in aping the internet manners of President Trump.

It would be a lot more fun if the situation in Gavin’s own state were sunnier.

As it is, while Newsom plays cute online, California is in a disastrous state. Just this year, it has suffered ruinous wildfires, causing billions of dollars worth of damage. And even if the areas of Los Angeles that burned to the ground are rebuilt, good luck to anyone trying to get home insurance.

Then there are the riots — stoked along by Democrat politicians, who seem to think that it is the natural-born right of every illegal alien to riot against ICE and other law-enforcement officers and wave the flags of Mexico and other countries to demonstrate just how many rights they think they should get in America.

All this comes as the state of California still struggles to recover from the disastrous COVID-19 lockdown policies that Newsom tried to install in his state. For everyone but himself, naturally.

Perhaps Newsom and the sycophants in his party think that some winsome online behavior will bring back the 2.1 million registered Democrats who seem to have been lost by the party in the years between 2020 and 2024.

But the reality is that Newsom’s policies — from taxation to homelessness and law and order — have seen a great exodus of the people the state needs most. In recent years, California has lost even more wealthy millennials than New York has. Some 10,000 millennial households bringing in more than $200,000 a year fled California in a single year. A figure almost twice the size of the exodus from New York of the same demographic in the same year.



Of course, in part, that is because of the genius of the federal system in this country that makes moving between states so relatively easy.

A British person afflicted by high taxes and high crime cannot just up sticks and move to a different jurisdiction in their country. It’s all going to be the same.

But if California or New York decides to tax the successful beyond their endurance and fails to give them a decent quality of life in return, then Florida or Texas will never look so appealing.

That is a fact that Democrats in New York, as much as in California, should keep at the top of their minds.

Even as New York is considering the possibility of electing a high-taxing, radical socialist mayor, there are people who say that it is an empty threat that people will actually leave this city. These are the same people who seemed to think that the Golden State would be endlessly attractive, even if there were syringes all over the sidewalks and the place was on fire.

The same people seem to think that you can test and test New York as much as you like, and it doesn’t matter because people will still want to live here.

Tell that to the people who had to live through the city’s downturn in the 1970s. In fact, tell that to the citizens of the numerous cities in this country that have managed to fall through the floor.



There was a time when Detroit seemed like the city of the future. There was a time when St. Louis seemed like a good bet. But these places should be reminders that what seems enduring can in fact be stress-tested to death in front of your eyes.

I mentioned the country of Adam Smith, and it is still worth looking to it for a lesson in what could happen here.

The left-wing Labour government in the UK came into power last year, promising to tax the rich to fill its fiscal deficits. Of course, it hasn’t worked. But the threat has certainly chased money out of the country.

The UK is expected to lose some 16,500 millionaires this year alone. An uptick of over 50% just in the year before. All driven away by the brilliant tax policies of a government that doesn’t even say it is socialist.

What Zohran Mamdani and Co. would do to this city is orders of magnitude worse than anything Labour has achieved in the UK. But there is another lesson still to learn. Which is that, having chased the wealthy out of the UK, the Labour government is now suddenly hoping to woo them back.

They are learning in real time the old conservative lesson that it is much easier to destroy than it is to build. Easier to chase people away than to give them the long-term confidence that would be needed to encourage them back.

Which returns me to Adam Smith. There may be a great deal of ruin in a nation. But there isn’t an endless amount of ruin in a state. Much less of a city. Come November, New Yorkers should remember that.



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