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How Gavin Newsom has failed California and set fire to his own political prospects

The emperor has no clothes — and no empathy. It’s likely, though, he still does have a standing reservation at the French Laundry. Of course, it’s Gavin Newsom, of whom I write. The smug and ambitious progressive California Governor whose political aspirations went up in flames as Los Angeles continues to burn to the ground,…