Gavin Newsom has a state burning — literally and figuratively. Homelessness exploding. Crime rampant. Population hemorrhaging. Wildfires destroying communities.

So where was California’s governor this week?

Davos. Frolicking with globalist elites. Taking photos with Alex Soros. And urging foreign leaders to rally against the President of the United States.

Ron DeSantis has had enough.

The Davos Disgrace

DeSantis appeared on Hannity and unloaded on his California counterpart.

“He’s out there frolicking around in Davos basically attacking the president of the United States, urging foreign leaders to rally against him while he’s on foreign soil.”

Let that sink in. An American governor traveled to Switzerland to ask foreign powers to oppose the democratically elected President of the United States.

That’s not policy disagreement. That’s not political opposition. That’s a sitting governor actively working with foreign interests against his own country’s leadership.

And he did it while posing for photos with George Soros’s son.

The Money Shot

DeSantis pointed to the image of Newsom with Alex Soros as the perfect encapsulation of what’s happened to California.

“Showing that picture of him with Alex Soros, I thought was very fitting because this governor has Soros’d California.”

“Soros’d.” DeSantis turned it into a verb. And it fits.

George Soros spent decades funding progressive prosecutors, open-borders activists, and left-wing causes. His son Alex has taken over the family operation. And Gavin Newsom is their golden boy on the West Coast.

Soros-backed DAs let criminals walk. Soros-funded groups fight immigration enforcement. Soros money flows to politicians who implement policies that destroy cities.

California is the laboratory. Newsom is the experiment. And the results are catastrophic.

The Great Escape

DeSantis described something he never saw growing up in Florida — California license plates everywhere.

“It was not something that I ever saw as a kid growing up in Florida. Even my first year as governor. But as we got into the second year, COVID, some of those things, you started to see it.”

Now they’re ubiquitous. Californians streaming across the continent to escape what their state has become.

And here’s the thing DeSantis noted: Republicans initially worried. California plates usually mean Berkeley liberals who’ll turn your state blue.

“The people that were leaving across — traveling across the entire continent, picking up their lives — were doing it because they had had enough of the failed policies.”

These aren’t progressive missionaries spreading the gospel of socialism. They’re refugees fleeing it. They watched their state collapse and chose freedom.

“The people that have come from California, at least since I’ve been governor, have been overwhelmingly Republicans.”

The In-Laws Say It All

Hannity brought up a delicious detail: Gavin Newsom’s own in-laws donated to DeSantis.

The governor of California couldn’t convince his own wife’s parents to support him. They looked at what he did to their state and sent money to Florida instead.

That’s not a policy critique. That’s a vote of no confidence from people who know him personally. People who’ve watched up close what progressive governance produces.

When your in-laws fund your political rivals, maybe — just maybe — you’re doing something wrong.

What California Has Become

DeSantis rattled off the litany of failures.

“He has a record where people are leaving the state. They’ve obviously had a lot of problems with homelessness. They’ve had a lot of problems with crime.”

That’s putting it mildly.

San Francisco is unrecognizable. Homeless encampments everywhere. Open-air drug markets. Retail stores closing because they can’t stop the theft. Tech companies fleeing to Texas and Florida.

Los Angeles is worse. Tent cities stretching for blocks. Human waste on sidewalks. Crime so bad that wealthy neighborhoods are hiring private security while defunding public police.

The wildfires? Decades of mismanagement, failure to clear brush, environmental regulations that prevented controlled burns. Newsom’s administration had years to address it. They didn’t.

And while his state burns, Newsom is in Switzerland schmoozing with billionaires.

The Davos Agenda

What was Newsom actually doing at the World Economic Forum?

He was positioning himself for 2028. Building relationships with global elites who might fund his presidential campaign. Establishing himself as the anti-Trump that foreign leaders can rally behind.

He wasn’t solving California’s problems. He was networking for his next job.

Meanwhile, the people he’s supposed to serve are loading U-Hauls and heading for states where governments actually function.

The Foreign Soil Problem

DeSantis highlighted something that shouldn’t be glossed over.

Newsom wasn’t just criticizing Trump domestically. He was doing it “while he was on foreign soil.” He was asking foreign leaders to oppose American policy.

There’s a long tradition in American politics: you don’t attack your president while abroad. You can disagree at home. You can fight politically on domestic turf. But when you’re overseas, you’re American first.

Newsom violated that norm spectacularly. He went to Davos specifically to undermine the President with foreign governments.

That’s not politics. That’s something closer to betrayal.

Florida vs. California

The contrast couldn’t be clearer.

Florida: gaining population. Low taxes. No income tax. Balanced budget. Economy booming. Freedom during COVID. Governor focused on governing.

California: losing population. Highest taxes in the nation. Crushing regulations. Economy struggling. Longest lockdowns. Governor focused on national ambition.

People vote with their feet. And they’re voting for Florida by the hundreds of thousands.

DeSantis turned his state into “the refuge for freedom and sanity.” Newsom turned his state into a cautionary tale.

The 2028 Preview

Everyone knows what Newsom wants. The White House.

Davos was part of that campaign. The Soros photo was part of that campaign. The anti-Trump rhetoric was part of that campaign.

He thinks he can run on opposition to Trump. He thinks foreign elite approval matters. He thinks his failure in California can be memory-holed by enough media coverage.

DeSantis just reminded everyone of the truth.

“This governor has Soros’d California. It used to be the place everyone wanted to go. And now, they’re losing population and continue to do so because they have enacted those left-wing policies that have failed.”

That’s the record. That’s the reality. That’s what Newsom will have to defend if he runs for president.

The Bottom Line

Gavin Newsom went to Davos to rally foreign leaders against the American president.

He posed with Alex Soros while his state collapsed.

His own in-laws donate to his political rivals.

Californians are fleeing so fast that their license plates have changed Florida’s highways.

And Ron DeSantis summed it all up in four words: “He has Soros’d California.”

There’s nothing left to add.

Except maybe: enjoy Switzerland, Gavin. The people you’re supposed to govern are too busy packing to notice you’re gone.