. . . “ 'Even if he came up with some policy solutions, at this point I don’t think anybody would believe it,” Dunsmore explained. “He’s been on such a seesaw.” The only way a politician will successfully navigate a situation like the one created by Newsom, Dunsmore said, is by paying attention and by listening “to the people and not the pundits.”
“ 'Don’t discard the preferences of the people you want to represent,” Dunsmore warned. “Don’t tell them how to think. Understand and listen to what’s happening to them. Their opinions are born of the school of hard knocks. They’re living it. And they’re either going to live a dream or a nightmare, and they look to their representatives to lead them towards the dream and not provoke the nightmare and perpetuate the nightmare, and that’s what you’re seeing.”
"Read more of The Federalist’s coverage of and commentary on the Recall Gavin Newsom effort here and here."