Gavin Newsom’s anti-Zohran moment: the California billionaire tax that splits the Democratic Party down the middle

Gavin Newsom’s stance against California’s proposed “Billionaire Tax Act” has exposed a rift in the Democratic Party, with the erstwhile progressive governor taking a stance on the side of wealth and implicitly against the wing of his party that has claimed billionaires shouldn’t even exist. Where New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has built a national profile off an unabashed “tax the rich” message, Newsom is staking out an explicitly anti-wealth-tax position, an important moment with Newsom...