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This greaseball wants to sell out trans people, not understanding that the reactionaries will just move on to the next target.
But you can't expect a liberal centrist to understand solidarity. I want him to lose the gubernatorial primary so fucking much.
Presidential primary? He's already governor but term limited. Fortunately, the more people see him and not his social media team, the greasier he's revealed to be
When I saw him the first time I thought it was a scene from American Psycho
Ah, right. I guess we'll have to flush him nationally now.
IMO, a California politician would face an uphill battle in the general anyway.
Republicans have spent so long demonizing California as a place full of communists and corruption that any politician associated with California is going to be viewed with intense suspicion by the (unfortunately all-important) flyover states.
Now, to be clear, fuck those ignorant assholes. But we do kind of need their votes, regardless. And it would be a mistake to run a candidate in the general election who has this disadvantage in swaying them.
The funny thing is newsom is so far removed from being any of those things Republicans paint California Dems as.
I suspect he understands fully how appeasement works and just doesn't care
Yes, I think he likes it that way. The status quo is the goal. He's not actually progressive at all, he just wears a progressive mask when he needs to, so it gets him votes.