Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) put on a brave face to talk with Sean Hannity on Fox News this month, avidly defending the Golden State’s liberal policies. But when he recently sat down to pitch his modest permitting reforms to the New York Times, he admitted California is no longer the great state it once was.

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