Jon Coupal: Will Gavin Newsom ‘hoist with his own petard’?

Jon Coupal: Will Gavin Newsom ‘hoist with his own petard’?

A line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers to a character being “hoist with his own petard.” A petard is a small explosive device, and the saying refers to someone getting injured by their own actions in a failed effort to harm others. It implies a sort of poetic justice, where the perpetrator of the plan ends up suffering the consequences of their own scheme. Not surprisingly, this is a common occurrence in politics when a maneuver to secure an ad…