Beating Trump back is the overwhelming priority. But fostering people’s detachment from reality, decrying a fake crisis that we won’t be able to solve even if in power, encouraging resentful nostalgia about a great America of decades past that was taken from them - there are some obvious risks here.

Increasing the cost new multifamily buildings leads to more people:
1) living in less safe old housing,
2) being more likely to live in greenfield single-family that is more dangerous from a fire perspective and WAY more dangerous from a vehicle miles traveled perspective, or
3) being homeless

I feel like a distinction you can tentatively draw with Newsom and Pritzker is that former is essentially turning Republican electoral tactics against them and the other is genuinely trying to exploit federalism the way red states have done in the last two decades