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    Analysis: Gavin Newsom must decide how far he wants to lead California to the left

    by John Myers, Los Angeles Times Nov 07, 2018 5 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Few can argue with California Democrats that their sweeping victories on Tuesday are a clear mandate to set in place an agenda for the state that will last well into the next decade. Less clear, though, is what those marching orders should be - and whether voters will embrace the full panoply of demands that have lurched the state's dominant party leftward since the election of President Donald Trump.

    No one will face that task more directly than Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom. The 51-year-old Democrat, who won a resounding victory over Republican challenger John Cox, will preside not only over the nation's largest economy, but also as leader of America's most fierce resistance to Trump and the nationalist shift of mainstream GOP politics.

    But the history of how Democrats came to dominate California politics over the past quarter-century is a story less about provocation than pragmatism. The majority

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