<p>Matt Mahan is the Mayor of San Jose and a candidate for Governor of California. He is one of the only prominent Democrats in the state willing to say out loud that California&#39;s failure to fix housing, homelessness, and energy costs has handed the MAGA movement its best ammunition. It isn&#39;t a partisan argument. It&#39;s a governance one.</p><p>In this conversation, Eric sits down with Matt to get into why California has spent $20 billion on high speed rail and delivered nothing, why the billionaire wealth tax will backfire, and how San Jose reduced homelessness by a third without raising taxes. They also get into his break with Gavin Newsom, the tech industry&#39;s growing political power, and what a competence first Democratic message actually looks like in practice.</p><p>They also talk about what&#39;s next — the jungle primary on June 2nd, what Matt thinks California needs from its next governor, and why he believes fixing the state is the most powerful counter to what&#39;s happening in Washington right now.</p>