Sadly a lot of Victorians would vote for him again. Melbourne is a very woke city. The comparison of Victoria with California seems quite apt. Andrews and Newsome would compare fairly evenly. Victorians are buying up properties in other states at record levels. I sold my house in South Australia this week and got more than $150k more than I woild have got last year the rish to buy outside of Victoria has been so great.
He’s busily driving out the people who wouldn’t want to vote for him.
It’s called “The Curley Effect”
https://www.nber.org/papers/w8942
James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections. We present a model of the Curley effect, in which inefficient redistributive policies are sought not by interest groups protecting their rents, but by incumbent politicians trying to shape the electorate through emigration of their opponents or reinforcement of class identities. The model sheds light on ethnic politics in the United States and abroad, as well as on class politics in many countries including Britain.