Zoran Mondami

Donald Trump and his cabinet members were going through every department

and getting rid of DEI and putting pro-America, pro-growth policies in place and doing so at an incredibly rapid rate.

And that's part of the reason the shutdown happened.

It was the only way Democrats could put the brakes on the reforms that Trump was making.

And so this is Newsom's attempt to do that starting in January 2027.

and he is looking toward 2028, and this is what he's doing.

Now, the reason it's succeeding in California is that Newsom is able to frame this issue, the redistricting in California, as an attempt to stop Trump.

It really is an attempt to disenfranchise California voters because it's taking away the votes and giving all the power to the politicians to choose their voters rather than the voters choosing who represents them.

This reverses the referendum voters passed in 2008 to create an independent redistricting commission.

Democrats figured out how to game that one as well.

There was a whole article back in 2011 in ProPublica about how Democrats had gamed the supposedly independent commission by having lobbyists and activists pose as residents of communities saying the lines should be here or there.

So Republicans lost seats even when they created this independent commission.

But now that's not even good enough for Democrats, and they're just going all in for gerrymandering, even though it hurts California.

And they're saying they're defending democracy, but it's kind of funny to defend democracy by eliminating the ability of the opposition to compete fairly.

So that's going to be the result in California, and it's all about a play for the control of the House, stopping the Trump presidency, and Gavin Newsom's personal ambitions.

Hang on a second.

Joel, what percentage... I keep saying there's more MAGA voters in California than almost Texas and Florida combined.

There's a massive amount of MAGA voters out there, and that's why I think Trump should have been engaged in this thing.

Schwarzenegger and then Charlie Munger's, I think, son, the physicist.

In fact, Schwarzenegger could say his legacy was to get this commission going.