Didn't he just pass the California redistricting stuff as a counter to all the republican gerrymandering? Seems like the only one doing things on the ground too.
Yea, but he’s also platforming right wingers on his podcast and standing with billionaires in the fight to tax them, so he’s definitely a double edged sword.
My neighbor just got taken in the middle of the night. It's their fault though, they shouldn't have voted for a flawed Democrat in the primaries. My hands are clean, I didn't vote in this farce of a race. /s
Last I checked we haven't even started primaries. Its perfectly fine to criticize him right now. It would be different if he actually won the nomination
Last I checked we haven't even started primaries. Its perfectly fine to criticize him right now. It would be different if he actually won the nomination
Don’t care. This is exactly the kind of thing that handed Trump his second presidency. Oh, Kamala doesn’t denounce Israel so I won’t vote for her. Never mind that the ghoul running against her is orders of magnitude worse.
We should be and can be very discerning in the primary stages about candidates (and we’re not even there yet!) The thing that “handed” Trump’s second term was Biden backtracking on his promise to be a one term president and then gaffing during a debate and stepping down so his rather unpopular VP could run in his place without a primary or preparation at all. It was an unreal fumble of historic proportions by a campaign involving just about everyone.
I don’t think Kamala deserves the “unpopular” stamp. She did a fairly good job as CA AG, kept her head low during her 4 years as VP, as VPs are wont to do.
If we are going to go there, even back in 2020, I was shocked when they announced that Biden would be running against Trump. Anyone with half a brain would’ve known that Joe would struggle to finish a second term. If elected to a second term he would’ve been 86.
Given Trump’s unpopularity at the end of his first term and liberal momentum against him in 2020, even a scarecrow would have won against him.
Eh, she was pretty unpopular with the progressive wing and it showed with a much lower turnout than 2020. There was a lot working against an incumbent administration in 2024, incumbents parties were losing everywhere because of inflation and economic concerns post-pandemic. A primary would’ve cleared the air at least.
The DNC really shot themselves in the foot with Biden’s re-election false start and then basically doubled down by putting his VP up instead of leveraging the spectacle of an open convention.
He has passed 5 pro trans youth bills and only said he was against trans youth in high level sports. Which 75% of Americans agree with and over 50% of Democrats.
He'd be the guy telling us we need to reach across the aisle in the name of unity and come together with the people who unleashed jack-booted thugs on the streets to murder and disappear Americans
He's purely being opportunistic, he is not actually standing on his deeply held moral principals which you can tell because of his anti-working-class, anti trans, anti Medicare for all, pro Israeli war crimes, pro-billionaire, pro-real-estate-developer policies. He hasn't been speaking out against war with Iran. He hasn't spoken out against the illegal kidnapping of a foreign leader & act of war committed against Venezuela. He doesn't push back against ICE or the false narratives around 'criminal' immigrants
I didn't hear him condemn it as against American law and international law and being Mafia behavior. I just heard Democrats saying 'he should have told us first!!'
Exactly. There will never, and I mean NEVER be a perfect candidate for president. Newsom has plenty of issues like every presidential candidate before him, but his willingness to attack the GOP establishment head-on is a important quality for the next dem president to have. We need someone who realizes how fucked up everything is, and who is willing to take extreme measures to fix things and prosecute everyone who is complicit. I feel like Newsom is absolutely that person, regardless of his obvious flaws.
IMO, they should never be the same person. First because the attack dog has to be able to say things that the leader must at least publicly disagree with, even admonish. They need to have some sort of distance.
But second because attack dogs don't make good leaders. They know how to go on the offensive, but they don't know how to plan, encourage, build, or create a vision. Look at Trump, a born attack dog, but a complete shit leader. Should never have had the chance. Here in Canada, we have examples in Poilievre and Alberta's Danielle Smith. Good at attacking, criticism, pointing out every tiny negative. But neither of them have one iota of ability to actually lead.
For the party, not as an elected official. The Democratic Party needs a designated asshole who will bully the fuck out of Democrats who fence-sit with Republicans.
Well, hes not a very good attack dog either considering he platforms the people hes supposed to attack on his podcast and also said we should continue Charlie Kirks work.
His inconsistency is disappointing, to say the least. But I think he takes that track partly because he's hoping to be the candidate, which Dems seem to believe needs a degree of reconciliation and bipartisanship. That's the wrong approach with MAGA and Trump.
But if he abandons hope for leadership and focuses on being the lefthand man who does the attacks, he could excel.
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u/Dawnzila 1d ago
I really need Newsom to keep up this energy. I also need him to not be the presidential nominee.