In a dramatic slamming of Newsom & Co, a CNN commentator has told the nation how California’s ruling Democrat Party politicians harm ordinary people.
On June 14, 2026, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria called California’s Democrat Party rule “a failing model of governance.”
Zakaria said, in part:
“Since 2000, California’s population has grown by roughly 15 percent. But the state’s general expenditures have grown more than 200 percent, from $78 billion to about $248 billion. General spending per person has risen from about $2,300 to about $6,300. The number of state employees has grown by more than 50 percent by one count.
“Does anyone think that California government and its benefits have gotten 200 percent better in the last 25 years?
“Housing is the central failure. California has long spoken the language of compassion while building a system of exclusion. Alicia Finley writes in the “Wall Street Journal” that from 2021 to 2024, the L.A. metro area, with nearly 13 million people, issued only 118,000 building permits for new homes. Atlanta with about half that population issued 163,000.
“California has made it too hard, slow and expensive to build. The result is predictable. Home prices soar, rents rise, workers commute farther, homelessness grows, young people leave. And people are leaving. Over the past seven years, the state has lost a net 1.9 million people through domestic migration.”
Watch Zakaria’s full message below: