Governor Gavin Newsom is doing what most people living in California do – leaving his home to spend some time in red states. This week he visited a college in Florida as part of his fight against “authoritarian leaders.”
Newsom met with students of New College of Florida, a small liberal arts school that his counterpart, Governor Ron DeSantis, has been using as a staging ground for his war on “woke” higher education.
In January, DeSantis changed the makeup of the college’s board of directors by placing six conservative allies on the 13-member panel, as the school has been accused of indoctrinating students with le …