Newsom and his team have successfully tapped into the need that many rank-and-file Democrats have for adopting a confrontational approach to Trump and his policies. But few people outside of California know much about the governor’s actual record — and many Democratic voters will be turned off to learn that his fervent opposition to a billionaire tax is part of an overall political approach that has trended more and more corporate-friendly.
A year ago, Newsom sent about 100 leaders of California-based companies a prepaid cell phone “programmed with Newsom’s digits and accompanied by notes from the governor himself,” POLITICO reported. One note to the CEO of a big tech corporation said, “If you ever need anything, I’m a phone call away.” While pandering to business elites, Newsom has slashed budgets to assist the poor and near-poor with healthcare, housing and food – in a state where seven million live under the official poverty line and child poverty rates are the highest in the nation.
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“Governor Newsom’s reluctance to propose meaningful revenue solutions to help blunt the harm of federal cuts undermines his posture to counter the Trump administration.” The statement said that the proposed budget “will leave many Californians without food assistance and healthcare coverage.”
So far, key facts about Newsom’s policy priorities have scarcely gone beyond California’s borders. “National media have focused on Newsom as a personality and potential White House candidate and have almost completely ignored what he has and has not done as a governor,” said columnist Dan Walters, whose five decades covering California politics included 33 years at the Sacramento Bee. “It’s a perpetual failing of national political media to be more interested in image and gamesmanship rather than actual actions, the sizzle rather than the steak, and Newsom is very adept at exploiting that tendency.”
Also see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/10/gavin-newsom-presidential-candidate-democrats
Like Trump, Newsom breaks promises, serves billionaire interests and mistakes social media theatrics for leadership. Is that really what American voters will want in 2028? After Richard Nixon, Americans chose Jimmy Carter. After George W Bush, they chose Barack Obama. After Trump, they’ll likely want change – authentic, strong, moral leadership, a leader with competence and vision.
Yet you are in fact leading us to failure and blaming the victims of you believing the wrong people for that failure. How many times must you be lied to before you question who you trust for information?
If you don’t vote against a fascist, yes. You are to blame for the fascist. I thought this was pretty clear back in November and reiterated daily since then.
The issue is your supporting candidates and platforms that can’t win. Assuming everyone arguing for popular reform didn’t vote is obscuring the issue with slander.
Meanwhile. You seem to take no issue with 3rd party voters. I’m just not going to bother to take you seriously from here on out, but do go on!
We already know what the situation is, and yet you continue to yell down calls for popular reform, then blame the voters for doing what we already knew they would do.
Really it’s just arrogance on the part of the people whose lead you are following. Arrogance, dereliction of duty, and a host of other terms. As if the country had no other options, was at the mercy of the oligarchy powerless to force a candidate not whoring for their unpopular agenda, while their other monster is escaping their control and is actively and openly fixing elections to kill the republic in all but name.
Preventing representative government from being killed in all but name, for the worst people in the world at that, is the reason for being of these lawmakers, the courts, etc. It’s a betrayal of their oaths, and their citizens, and decency, to allow the republic to be turned into an autocracy, one with unthinkable results at that.
As I said, you are following the lead of politicians that use slander to obscure the issue, the issue being the oligarchy captured the democrats and only allow weak sold out unpopular candidates. Which has enabled republicans to win, and now permanently fix elections. Our last chance to stop them in the succession fight is now being sabotaged by you, deferring to the ones that just brought us kamala.
What do you call doing the same thing and expecting different results? That’s you.
The same thing and expecting different results?
You mean like voting for third party spoilers?
You don’t have the information to make that accusation though do you? You cannot answer the topic at hand, so you change the subject to make an unfounded accusation against others to shift the blame. Not so enlightened that. But your argument cannot stand to reason so what else are you going to do?
I don’t have the information???
…2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024….
Pick an election year and you’ll find wasted votes on unelectable clowns.
You have no argument here bud. Walk away.