Has Gavin Newsom become Governor Gaslight?

“Gaslight” was a 1938 British play, set in the 1880s, about a man who manipulates his wife into believing she is going insane to suppress her suspicions about crimes he is committing.
Two years later, it became a British movie and in 1944 an American version, starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, was released. Two decades after that, “gaslighting” become the popular, and even scientific, term for attempts to manipulate others into believing something that isn’t