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Carl Higbie told hardworking Americans on his Newsmax program what too many of us already suspect: Governor Gavin Newsom’s California has become a cautionary tale, a so-called model that amounts to “bupkis” in real-world results. Higbie’s takedown — blistering, unapologetic and straight to the point — is exactly the kind of refusal to sugarcoat the truth conservatives need right now.
Look at the visible consequences: tent cities and people living on the sidewalks are no longer an anomaly; they are a feature of big-city life in places like Los Angeles, where officials admit unsheltered homelessness has risen again after years of failed experiments. Citizens paying sky-high prices and seeing public order crumble have every right to be furious at leadership that treats symptoms as political talking points rather than problems to fix.
Families and job-creators are voting with their feet — domestic migration figures show thousands leaving California year after year, draining talent, tax base and energy from once-vibrant communities. This is the predictable result when a state punishes productivity and rewards dependency instead of rewarding hard work and citizenship.
Meanwhile, Sacramento piles on taxes and fees until even the boldest entrepreneurs think twice about staying; California’s top marginal tax rates and overall tax burden are famously brutal for anyone who actually creates wealth. If the state wants to reverse the exodus, elected officials must stop treating taxpayers like ATM machines and start making California a place where success is rewarded rather than fleeced.
Watch the so-called big projects: the bullet train promised to unite the state has devolved into a symbol of fiscal irresponsibility, with costs exploding into the tens of billions and timelines stretched to the breaking point. Conservatives were right to call out the hubris of spending gargantuan sums on vanity projects while potholes go unfilled and public safety goes underfunded.
Higbie’s sarcasm about “crack pipe machines” and “hobos everywhere” may be blunt, but it cuts to a real policy debate: when ideology forces officials to prioritize feel-good signaling over basic order and infrastructure that actually helps citizens, chaos follows. Democrats love to lecture the nation about being a model, but the real lesson is that reckless spending, overregulation and sanctifying dependency produce urban decay, not prosperity.
Patriots who love our country should use California as a warning, not a blueprint: lower taxes, restore law and order, clear encampments with compassion and accountability, and stop pouring public money into pork projects that benefit contractors and consultants more than families. That’s the agenda that will rebuild cities, bring back jobs, and make America the land of opportunity again — and it’s the fight conservatives must win.
