I’m whatever the opposite is of a devoted fan of Newsom, but I think describing the cause of this aggregate mess as PG&E buying politicians is well off the mark.

The problem is that PG&E is just one player in a system built up over decades. The system is built on the wrong set of premises, continues to evolve based on those premises, and can only be fixed by rejecting those premises.

This is becoming increasingly obvious, and a politician like Newsom is too smart to tie himself to the mast of a sinking ship.