So, if this is the thread we're talking about Newsom in, I really think that people need to think twice about jumping on his dick. He's Hillary with a penis, another corporate weathervane that cannot ever really align to the energy he would need to win people over.
The quality people want is not aggression but genuine-ness. Newsome does not have that. Of course, genuine people tend to get aggressive/assertive, but being aggressive is like "cargo-culting": it puts the cart before the horse and just ends up making everyone involved look like jackasses.
Yes, Newsom is doing the right thing (or at least the politically well-informed thing, gerrymandering the hell out of California in response to Republican attempts to do as much in Texas and elsewhere) now that it's apparent that this polls well.
Newsom was groomed as clearly as Trump was for a run at the presidency. Frankly, I think that more than ever should disqualify people from the position in the eyes of the informed electorate, when monied interests strongly support and align a person to a seat of high power.
Such people can never really broadly represent the people, because for much of their lives and careers they have had the voices of a vanishing minority whispering in their ear that the politician can just reach out and have the world, and so many others have that fighting the tide of them will be impossible anyway, and this is what they must accede to if they wish for support in reaching for a higher seat.
If they can be swayed to and fro by polls, what is to say this even motivates their work, and that they may not be anchored by money? It certainly says their values are not directly in what they are supporting, and having solidity behind what you vote for matters to a lot of people.
And for many people, they realize that there is solidity behind Trump: Trump is for Trump, always and entirely. His followers read between the lines and get the "second layer" communications just fine. Even if we also clearly can decode those communications and say that "quiet part" out loud, enough folks will either not get it or still be down with the parts said put loud or lean on the thinnest ever "plausible deniability" to those who don't get it at all that the people who enjoy the burning can broadly move with inpugnity.
There is solidity there, much more so than there is behind corporate Democrat strategies of "shift with the wind until something polls well".
We should have always been first trying to figure out what is most right, and then figuring out strategies that achieve that, and then working to implement exactly those strategies.
I wouldn't vote for Newsom. It would be like voting for Pelosi. I think he deserves to be primaried.
I'm telling y'all right now if y'all are going to be pushing Newsom for challenging the Trump regime, you're picking a non-starter.
Walz would be a good pick, or AOC, or any of a number of senators, but Newsom has too much clear corporate baggage and trying to ram him down the electorate's throats even if a lot of people are holding their mouths open wide is a classic Democrat "Defeat From The Jaws of Victory" energy right there.