Erika D. Smith: About that fantastical rhetoric from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris

So, at this point, we've clearly reached peak political fantasyland.

I know, I know. That probably wasn't the takeaway Democratic Party activists and union leaders had hoped to deliver with Wednesday's bit of political theater, starring Vice President Kamala Harris returning to the San Francisco Bay Area to rhetorically rescue her longtime frenemy Gov. Gavin Newsom.

But what can I say? I'm a realist.

I'm not sure how else to think of the many gushing remarks about the enviable strength of California's post-pandemic economy, and our policies that ensure living wages and safe working conditions. Or, as Harris insisted, that "Gavin has always understood that if you want to lift