Just remember Newsom is a wealthy American politician. He isn't you're friend. He isn't you're cool different kind of politician politician. He's a corporate backed mouthpiece for interests that aren't yours. You can view him as a necessary evil, but don't forget the evil part.

Don't let perfection be the enemy of progress.

and also his attacks on homeless rights too. grrr i hate him.

Newsome is an awful candidate, he’s positioning himself to loose in the same way Harris did. Trying to lean to the right, ether to pick up disaffected republican voters, or to simply seem less scary to them so they’ll be less likely to vote out of fear.

It’s the strategy that Clinton used during his second election to massive success, but, the republicans have been armoring themselves against that strategy for over 3 decades now, largely by building a base of support that only sees news and information they want them to see. At this point, a Democratic candidate could run on the same exact platform as a republican, and that core base of voters would still vote for a republican.

The democrats need to embrace the 50 states strategy that helped Obama win. Focus on partnering with grass roots organization to bring in blocks of voters who don’t traditionally show up by speaking to issues they care about. Don’t dictate the “correct policy” and then try and convince voters it’s what they want, ask them what policy they want and run on that.

All you people who were willing to compromise on palestinian lives, now willing to compromise on queer and homeless lives, here is a nice poem by Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

If you still believe their lies that somehow you will be spared, just trust them, there is nothing anyone can say that will make sense to you.

Primary elections matter. Also, three Presidents? I’m only aware of Nixon (born here) and Reagan (moved here).

Is this the thread from the gop to tank newsome this early? Like yea we can talk about how he sucks but this all reads like gop bots in here.