Making politicians face voters is “cancel culture,” according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom in his latest round of complaints about the recall effort against him. He is wrong.

Newsom jumped on the comparison in a Yahoo! News interview with reporter Andrew Romano, who may as well be a Democratic flack. In a softball interview from start to finish, Romano set Newsom up by asking if California is going overboard with recall elections, citing efforts to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón and San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.