Continuing with today’s theme of the Grand Canyon–sized disconnect between the moonbat ruling class and the rest of us, let’s move on from the Teamsters, the MSM, and Covid tyrants to the kooks like Gavin Newsom who have turned California over to criminals:

Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders vehemently oppose an anti-retail theft measure on the November ballot.

In stark contrast, among the people they supposedly represent,

The support numbers are stunning for Proposition 36, sponsored by the California District Attorneys Assn. It would increase punishment for theft and hard drug offenses and impose required treatment for repetitive criminal addicts.

The initiative is ahead by an astonishing 45 percentage points, according to a new poll of likely voters by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California: 71% to 26%, with only 3% undecided.

Prop 36 would undo some of the damage inflicted when California moonbats effectively legalized shoplifting by making any theft under $950 a misdemeanor.

Misdemeanor arrests are harder to make because a cop must witness a crime or possess a judge’s warrant. Anyway, judges began freeing petty thieves. So, cops stopped responding to shoplifting complaints. Merchants ceased bothering to report the crimes. And smash-and-grab thefts increased.

Consequently, stores closed and the quality of life declined, as can be expected under the rule of libs like Newsom, who barks:

“Mass incarceration has been proven ineffective and is not the answer.”

Then what is the answer?

Newsom’s initial answer included trying to strongarm Proposition 36 off the ballot. It failed awkwardly, leaving legislative leaders perturbed at the governor.

Newsom can console himself that after Proposition 8 passed in 2008, defending marriage from desecration, homosexual judge Vaughn Walker decreed it null and void. Maybe he can find a drug-addled shoplifting judge to do the same with Prop 36.

On a tip from Anonymous.