Gavin Newsom could give the keynote speech at CPAC wearing a MAGA hat while draped in an American flag while reading word for word from mein kampf…and come election time the GOP and its faithful would still call him a godless commie who wants to unleash hordes of undocumented immigrants upon lawful (aka white) Americans, take away all your guns, and forcibly turn your kid gay/trans.
These people will never fucking learn that there is nothing to be gained by stooping to the level of your enemy, with only your dignity—which they don’t care about/have—and support amongst your base—which they ostensibly do care about—to lose. It’s why Zohran won: because he refused to play this crooked game and refused to engage on these issues on his enemy’s terms. Until the mainstream Dems learn that (which, given they’ve been losing this battle since at least 2016 but more realistically it goes back to at least the 90s with Clinton), it’s just going to remain that tweet about whining to the refs about the rules while a dog keeps dunking all over them.
The Clinton presidency really did poison Democrats' brains for like 2 generations, because he's still more popular than Obama amongst the set that runs the party. They got it ossified in their heads that "triangulation" was THE way to win votes, and no amount of bad faith from the Right will convince them otherwise.
“the best way to win votes is to ignore the 60 million people in the electorate that just don’t vote and instead trying to get republicans, who hate us to their very core, to jump ship.” fuck the dems.
Parker Molloy, who is a trans woman, made the very defensible declaration on Bluesky that she would not vote for Gavin Newsom, who is open to the idea that she should not exist. Oh the shitstorm that ensued . . .
"'We started caring about trans people because of George Floyd' is an insane thing to say."
Apparently Gavin forgot all about NC's HB2 (the infamous "bathroom bill"), which is saying a lot insofar as Cali cut off relations with NC after it passed. Wasn't he governor at the time?
Also, what really happened in the wake of George Floyd and 2020 was right-wingers found a bunch of success in weaponizing transphobia. And he's going right along with it. Like you said, he can fuck right off with this shit.
Very much this!!! I have seen at least one notable liberal substacker who has really been pimping Gavin Newsom for president in 2028 and he is going so far as to call anyone with any objections a Russian troll who is bent on dividing the nation. The disturbing part of it is all the comments from other ostensibly liberal people co-signing on that idea carte blanche and seemingly with no problems to do with his rightward turn. If he's willing to virtue signal so hard to the right extremists on this, what won't he flex on?
Centrism is so stupid and boring. All those words to try to find some non-existent third option in between being a bigot and not being a bigot. Who would listen to that podcast?
Gavin Newsom could give the keynote speech at CPAC wearing a MAGA hat while draped in an American flag while reading word for word from mein kampf…and come election time the GOP and its faithful would still call him a godless commie who wants to unleash hordes of undocumented immigrants upon lawful (aka white) Americans, take away all your guns, and forcibly turn your kid gay/trans.
These people will never fucking learn that there is nothing to be gained by stooping to the level of your enemy, with only your dignity—which they don’t care about/have—and support amongst your base—which they ostensibly do care about—to lose. It’s why Zohran won: because he refused to play this crooked game and refused to engage on these issues on his enemy’s terms. Until the mainstream Dems learn that (which, given they’ve been losing this battle since at least 2016 but more realistically it goes back to at least the 90s with Clinton), it’s just going to remain that tweet about whining to the refs about the rules while a dog keeps dunking all over them.
The Clinton presidency really did poison Democrats' brains for like 2 generations, because he's still more popular than Obama amongst the set that runs the party. They got it ossified in their heads that "triangulation" was THE way to win votes, and no amount of bad faith from the Right will convince them otherwise.
“the best way to win votes is to ignore the 60 million people in the electorate that just don’t vote and instead trying to get republicans, who hate us to their very core, to jump ship.” fuck the dems.
Parker Molloy, who is a trans woman, made the very defensible declaration on Bluesky that she would not vote for Gavin Newsom, who is open to the idea that she should not exist. Oh the shitstorm that ensued . . .
"'We started caring about trans people because of George Floyd' is an insane thing to say."
Apparently Gavin forgot all about NC's HB2 (the infamous "bathroom bill"), which is saying a lot insofar as Cali cut off relations with NC after it passed. Wasn't he governor at the time?
Also, what really happened in the wake of George Floyd and 2020 was right-wingers found a bunch of success in weaponizing transphobia. And he's going right along with it. Like you said, he can fuck right off with this shit.
i hate him
The one thing I look forward to in next Dem presidential primary is Newsom eating DeSantis & Bloomberg levels if shit.
Very much this!!! I have seen at least one notable liberal substacker who has really been pimping Gavin Newsom for president in 2028 and he is going so far as to call anyone with any objections a Russian troll who is bent on dividing the nation. The disturbing part of it is all the comments from other ostensibly liberal people co-signing on that idea carte blanche and seemingly with no problems to do with his rightward turn. If he's willing to virtue signal so hard to the right extremists on this, what won't he flex on?
Gavin. Newsom is courageous. He’s speaking truth about the regime.
Centrism is so stupid and boring. All those words to try to find some non-existent third option in between being a bigot and not being a bigot. Who would listen to that podcast?
Indeed. What misery.