Gavin Newsom channels Pete Wilson

As the crises cascade one upon the other — pandemic, economic decline and racial conflict — Democrat Gavin Newsom’s governorship bears an increasingly eerie resemblance to that of Republican Pete Wilson three decades earlier.
Both entered the office with ambitious plans for transforming government.
Wilson, a former mayor of San Diego, gave up a seat in the U.S. Senate because he wanted to be a Tory reformer in the mold of Earl Warren with “preventive government” &md