Unsurprisingly, there has been little indication the American progressive left perceives Newsom as deserving anything but disdain. Recent weeks have only bolstered the sense that committing to the abolition of ICE is a prerequisite for any remotely moral candidate in 2028. If Newsom fails to become that candidate, it will not be because he appeared too left-wing, but because he lacked the guts or the inclination to be anything except what he manifestly is: a preening political operator, beholden to a status quo that no longer exists.
Nobody wants him to run but the tech oligarchs.
It’d be better if he were to retire to a vineyard or whatever people like him do after they fuck off.
He’s a hollow bell that tolls for money
Yup. When the rubber meets the profits Newsom will always side with capital. It’s he better than trump? Yes. But is he the man to fix our nation. Absolutely not.
Exactly!
Newsom would keep ice and the patriot act in place and wouldn’t even fix the cost of living
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They also could just be new…
According to the mod logs looks like they got banned from lemmy.wold and sh.itjust.works. I’m not the only person that thought it was a LLM bot
Whelp that’s fair lmao. I should check those more often.
Yet you offered nothing to counter their claims. Newsome serves Newsome
Why would I bother debating with a bot regardless of whether I agree or disagree with their opinion? It’s a bot. It repeats what it’s programmed to and my opinion on the validity of it is unimportant.
AI can fuck off regardless of whether it’s programmed to parrot things I like or dislike.
Yeah, Newsom would be an extremely depressing dystopian candidate. I want Ro Khanna or AOC. Or either one as president and vice president.
Most (not all) of Gavin’s problems come from completely optional crap he does. He didn’t need a podcast. He really doesn’t need to go on conservative podcasts either. Every time he attempts to reach across the aisle, it earns him nothing with conservatives and pisses off his base.
Coming out against the billionaire tax in California also doesn’t help.
Yup. All he has to say is “If that what the people want, its what’s gonna happen.” Its super milk toast, it’s non-commital, but it doesn’t make you look owned by billionaires.
Same crowd as last time is already trying to discourage and divide the left. Like it’s their job or something.
We’re allowed to criticize political charlatans when we see them. I live in CA and most people here can see this. It’s only people outside the state who can’t because they aren’t watching as closely. All they’ve seen is his social media posts which he didn’t write and has stated he doesn’t even agree with. There is no substance to this man. He’s all hair gel.
As someone from San Bernardino I must agree, he’s a pretty bog standard Bay Area shitstain. Nothing but an empty suit who only really made it past the recall cause the recall doesn’t trigger a standard election something we really need to fix IMO, but yeah if the recall triggered an actual election and had the lieutenant governor take over in the interim he’d have been ousted back then.
Stop acting like he’s already the choice. He’s not. And he won’t be, because he’s a terrible fucking choice. Criticizing a terrible choice isn’t dividing anything. He’s a billionaire puppet hellbent on pretending to act tough then doing fuck all to actually change anything or stand up for anyone.
You know that primaries haven’t happened yet, and that this is reason to not vote for him in them? He’s not the winning candidate everyone needs to get behind yet. There’s no one to divide.
Even moderate capitalists don’t want another pro oligarchy candidate
lol wut. Gavin Newsom is not on the left.
Democrats are not left. Newsome is not left. If you want another neoliberal POS to defend go right ahead, but those of us that have been right about every candidate your party has run are also right about Newsome
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The problem with Gavin Newsom is they could swap him with Billy Crudup doing a bit and I wouldn’t notice.
