“In San Francisco this is experience.”
But you will note from his Wiki, that he was “born” in Chicago to a 19 year old Jewish girl and an Iranian father. This effluent wasn’t born here, he came here to crap up a once wonderful city that has been taken down by diversity.
Like the old Johnny Carson joke(IIRC)"California is the land of Fruits and nuts The country tilts westward and all the loose fruits and nuts wind up in California."
California of the Governor Reagan years was quite conservative till the influx of East Coast leftist and more recently from south of the border.
Or so I remember.