California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the governor was denied entry into a venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, after being invited to speak at the event due to “pressure” from the Trump administration.
Newsom had been scheduled to speak with Fortune at the USA House, Davos, a privately organized event, at the World Economic Forum, which has been recognized by the U.S. government as the nation’s headquarters in Davos.
ITT, idealists once again letting perfect be the enemy of good.
It’s worked so well the past few elections.
would only apply if Gavin Newsom was “good”.
He is not good, he even denied genocide in Gaza and protected billionaires
And had photo-ops while clearing homeless camps.
He’s not Trump, but most of Trump’s donors would neither mind nor care.
Don’t forget all the transphobia too!
The Democrats have had nothing but people like Newsom since the 1980s but you think that’s the best course of action? He was invited there because he would only talk about cultural grievances and not the economic ones that the wealthy are currently causing.
Nobody wants perfect. A neoliberal Democrat winning will just continue the kleptocracy while lying to us about it. Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are controlled opposition.
Also, Ben Shapiro, the lying little shit ran circles around him on Newsom’s podcast. Made him seem like a weak bitch.
Before then tbh
Well, they won every popular vote except two, so don’t be so quick to throw out the baby with the bathwater
Yes, Obama ran on hope, change and anti-war… A litera promised leftist revolution. What did we get? More centrists. Democrats lost over 1000 seats in state and federal offices. Bankers in charge of policing banks. George W Bush and his cronies walking free after years on criminal activity by his administration.
Biden was just the result of the DNC and all of the centrists grouping together to defeat Bernie Sanders for the second time.
Because at the time of the general election all other options left of center right are effectively removed with no support from the democratic party. They basically haven’t even pretended to have a democratic primary since Obama in 2008, instead choosing to coronate whoever the super delegates choose, which has worked true wonders for the party /s. They’re already starting the motions to do this again with their next center right candidate in Newsom.
That must be why the country has been so awesome during all that time!
That’s when they lost Congress for the first time in half a century. And Republicans have held that advantage for most of the time since then. It’s not just the presidency that is affected by their rich-first policies
Plus Newsom had his chance in 2024, when we needed a winnable candidate and he decided it was better to let the country fall than be accused of stepping over a minority woman, nevermind the fact she was massively unpopular and running as the status quo while republicans ran as reform. That biden’s presidency was a shit show, people wanted a change, and they didn’t know better than to not vote for the republicans.
Seriously, it’s not just he doesn’t deserve it, that he would not be popular enough to end the fascist threat and restore the republic, it’s that he won’t be popular enough to win, not the least with republicans cheating every way they can. At most he will ask the courts to let him have the election and they will say no.
That’s on the voters for not participating in primaries…
He is a corpocrate. A shill for the wealthy. He represents the white moderates.
MLK advocated for some pretty radical changes to our society. Not just racial equality. We need the white moderates to lose their investments, or they won’t really help. They have too much to lose, they think maybe tomorrow would be more opportune.
Same then, same now.
The options have been rather poor, let’s all be honest here. This would work if we were talking about say, AOC. Newsom, however, is bad. Very bad.
Pritzker is fairly good.
Very bad is a sliding scale. And he ain’t that. I’m in California and see it first hand, it’s 55% good.
Ask some trans people about this if you know any. If you don’t, ask 196, there’s plenty there.
That’s a failing grade. Bring barley better than coin flip on bad decisions is not worth pre settling for.
https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-inventing-reality-recorded-1993
This is exactly the time to be going after libs like Newsom. Move the party left before primaries.
I actually agree with you. But experience tells me we’re too principled and undisciplined to support any candidate after the primaries.
I agree with that. Both voters and politicians share the blame for Trump being in office. Democrats fail to run good candidates, but voters refuse to have their voices heard in primaries as well as thinking that doing a “protest vote” in generals is useful.
I will support him as far as it supports positive movement. I will criticize him otherwise. Same with every neo-liberal before him, and will continue with every neo-liberal after him.
Oh look someone else pushing and autocrat with a blue paint job instead of red, telling us to pre submit to an obviously terrible choice. Being better than the worst option doesn’t make him by any means, good.
The fucker is a democrat trump.
Jesus fucking Christ how deluded are you?
Fetterman/Gabbard 2028! Yes we can!!1!
Just hold on, any day now Lemmy will find a candidate so pure they can rally behind them.
Any day now.
It’s bizarre. People don’t learn to negotiate or accept half a load of bread when offered.