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.
Newsom would keep ice and the patriot act in place and wouldn’t even fix the cost of living
Yeah, Newsom would be an extremely depressing dystopian candidate. I want Ro Khanna or AOC. Or either one as president and vice president.
Ro Khanna is just lighting things up this year. Very pleased with everything he’s been doing
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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.
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.
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.
He doesn’t have a chance, because it’s going to be a fair primary all the way thru.
They might be able to buy the first couple states especially if they start early, but they can’t keep up the whole cycle which is why prior DNCs always tried to call it like 2 weeks after the first states vote.
2028 will run until ever state votes, and the DNC isn’t going to favor anyone.
So the only chance Newsom has, is depressing turnout for the primary.
Which is why so many people keep acting like the DNC hasn’t changed, they’ve already fell for the propaganda and are spreading it.
why do you think the primarys will be fair this time and that the DNC won’t favour a corporate Democrat? There’s been no evidence or prior indications that this will be the case this time that I have seen.
why do you think the primarys will be fair this time and that the DNC won’t favour a corporate Democrat
Because the chair is all powerful and accountable to no one…
And the new one led Minnesota for like a decade and ran fair primaries turning a purple state progressive without any bias.
It’s been a year, and they’ve been sending record breaking levels of funding back to state parties, that’s why we keep “over performing” in special elections.
What’s important here, is that this funding was a cudgel wielded by prior neoliberals: do what we saw or we’ll bankrupt your whole state.
That threat is literally gone.
Had you not “seen” any of that on billionaire owned media?
He doesn’t have a chance, because it’s going to be a fair primary all the way thru.
I’m not sure the Dems remember how to do one of those.
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Nevermind
The DNC will back whoever THEY want as their candidate and they will do everything on their power to make sure everyone else falls in line. And they will use the same tropes they’ve always used about ‘most important election of our lifetime™’ and every liberal voter will fall on line
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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.
Even moderate capitalists don’t want another pro oligarchy candidate
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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