Maybe. But your precondition won't be met. And even if the then-sitting president decides not to run for a second term, Bell would still have to beat Vice President Newsom in the primaries.
With his weird left/right zig-zags, being "Mr. Gay Rights" and supported by the left liberals, yet firmly in the pockets of the real estate corporations and banks who usually support Republicans, Newsom will be a hard man to be beat.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.