Fortunately for Trump and the country, his enemies are cartoonishly unserious people.

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announcement this week, he used his power as governor to call a special session of the legislature to appropriate $100 million to the California Department of Justice for the sole purpose of “immediately” initiating “affirmative litigation” intended to ” safeguard Californian values.”

And what are these values? Well, Newsom said they include preserving “clean vehicle policies that are critical to fighting climate change” and protecting “long-standing environmental protections.” Newsom is undoubtedly correct that the Trump administration will have ample opportunity to reverse many of the mandates that Newsom’s administrations have put in place to force consumers to adopt electric vehicles.

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it envisioned a national standard for automobile exhaust emissions standards to be set by the Environmental Protection Agency. If a state wants to go beyond these national standards, it must request a waiver from the EPA, which is what California did when it passed a law essentially banning the sale of all gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035.

Now, Trump can’t snap his fingers and rescind this waiver, but he can go through a lengthy regulatory process to rescind it. And this process can be challenged by California in federal court. And we are sure that the State will do it. But let’s fight this fight. If Newsom and California Democrats want to use the size of the California market to push other states to ban the sale of gas-powered cars, let’s make this debate national. Let’s see what the country thinks of these “California values”.

As Trump seeks to build new power lines and other infrastructure projects in California, Democrats will again try to prevent anything from being built using the state’s strict anti-permitting law, the California Environmental Quality Act. But Congress can preempt this act. And Congress can make much-needed reforms to the federal anti-permitting law, the National Environmental Policy Act. For too long, infrastructure projects across the country have been stifled by environmental red tape. Newsom and California Democrats want to keep these anti-building regulations, Trump wants to repeal them. Let’s fight this fight.

Newsom also promises to fight Trump’s efforts to politicize “grant programs designed to commandeer state and local governments for federal purposes” and to stop the implementation of Trump’s “immigration policies.” In other words, Newsom is signaling that he will oppose any effort by the Trump administration to force local law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement in the arrest, detention and the expulsion of illegal immigrants.

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Once again, this is a fight the Trump administration is eager to fight. Multiple polls show that a large majority of voters support the mass expulsion of illegal immigrants. If Newsom and California Democrats want to explain to independent voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin why they don’t want to turn over murderers, rapists and drunk drivers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation, let’s hold this debate.

Newsom and California Democrats are simply deluding themselves about how the rest of the nation views “California values.” Whatever that phrase means to California Democrats, what it means to move voters across the country, it’s rampant crime, widespread homelessness, the highest energy prices in the country, highest real estate prices in the country and, as Vice President Kamala Harris so eloquently explained, taxpayer-funded surgery. for transgender illegal immigrants.