Trump vs. California values ​​is the fight voters deserve

Luckily for Trump and the country, his enemies are cartoonishly dubious people.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced this week that he would use his power as governor to call a special session of the Legislature to provide $100 million to the California Department of Corrections, for the sole purpose of “immediately ” to file “affirmative action” “Designed to “protect California values.”

And what exactly are these values? Well, Newsom said that includes maintaining “clean vehicle policies that are critical to combating climate change” and protecting “longstanding environmental protections.” Newsom is undoubtedly correct that the Trump administration will have ample opportunity to roll back many of the regulations Newsom administrations enacted to force consumers to purchase electric vehicles.

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it established a national standard for automobile emissions standards to be set by the Environmental Protection Agency. If a state wants to go beyond these national standards, it must apply to the EPA for a waiver. This is what California did when it passed a law that essentially bans the sale of all gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

Now Trump can’t snap his fingers and undo this waiver, but he can go through a lengthy rulemaking process to undo it. And that process can be challenged by California in federal court. And we are sure that the state will do this. But let’s fight this fight. If Newsom and California Democrats want to use the size of the California market to pressure other states to ban the sale of gasoline cars, then we should have this debate on a national level. Let’s see what the country thinks about these “California values.”

As Trump seeks to build new power lines and other infrastructure projects in California, Democrats will again try to prevent construction of any kind using the state’s tough anti-permitting law, the California Environmental Quality Act. But Congress can pre-empt this law. And Congress can make much-needed reforms to the federal anti-permitting law, the National Environmental Policy Act. For far too long, infrastructure projects across the country have been stifled by environmental bureaucracy. Newsom and the California Democrats want to keep these anti-construction regulations in place, Trump wants to repeal them. Let’s fight this fight.

Newsom also promises to fight Trump’s efforts to politicize “grant programs to seize state and local governments for federal purposes” and to stop the implementation of Trump’s “immigration policies.” In other words, Newsom is signaling that he will fight any attempt by the Trump administration to force local law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement in arresting, detaining and deporting illegal immigrants.

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This, too, is a fight the Trump administration can’t wait to fight. Multiple polls show that a large majority of voters support the mass deportation of illegal immigrants. If Newsom and California Democrats want to explain to independent voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin why they don’t want to turn murderers, rapists and drunk drivers over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation, then let’s have that debate.

Newsom and the California Democrats are simply delusional about how the rest of the nation views “California values.” Whatever that phrase means to California Democrats, what it means to move voters across the country is rampant crime, widespread homelessness, the highest energy prices in the country, the highest real estate prices in the country and, as Vice President Kamala Harris so eloquently stated , taxpayer-funded operations for illegal transgender immigrants.