It was a week that put the age-old adage “As California Goes, So Goes the Nation” to the test, but with unclear results. California Gov. Gavin Newsom handily turned back a recall effort, which President Biden ascribed to Newsom’s COVID policies, while others credited to the increasing unpopularity of Donald Trump. Three of the country’s sharpest political minds — Editor in Chief of the Dispatch online magazine, Jonah Goldberg, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, Norman Ornstein and former Sen. Barbara Boxer — take the recall as a prism for discussion of the national mood on former President Trump, COVID-19, voting rights and more.
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