Commentary
Gavin Newsom’s commercial advertisement in Florida has been justifiably ridiculed as a thinly-veiled political ploy meant to prime audiences for his 2024 presidential run.
“Freedom is under attack,” the governor of the Golden State announced. “I urge all of you in Florida to join the fight. Or join us in California. Where we still believe in freedom.”
“Freedom?” Viewers likely asked themselves, “In California?”
Was this a tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating joke by the state that still supports mask and vaccine mandates, whose cities are wracked with a crime that goes unprosecuted and has its streets littered with used needles and homeless encampments?…