California’s chaos under Gavin Newsom isn’t a coincidence—it’s the result of failed leadership and utopian fantasies. After seven years of disaster, his vow to “reimagine and rebuild” Los Angeles sounds less like comforting words in a time of crisis and more like the latest wave of California-style communism. Meanwhile, his partner in crime, LA Mayor Karen Bass, has her own history of communist visions of grandeur, dating back over 50 years to her first fawning visit to Cuba in 1973. Governor Newsom is always quick to promise that “as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation.” With how things are going so far, let’s hope he’s wrong.