I greatly dislike Newsom, but tbh this article is less damning then the headline sounds.

Ultimately, the only thing that will reliably stop Newsom from becoming president is a better alternative. I loathe him, but we need to talk less about him and more about who is going to beat him.

AOC? Elizabeth Warren? Is Lina Khan interested??

I held my nose and voted for Harriss. I guess Newsom smells slightly less of cop, but he has worse baggage versus trans people, immigrants, the homeless, and fucking-solar-panels-of-all-things("Climate Warrior"? REALLY!?), for starters.

I guess I could tolerate him as a lame-duck while we wait for the last of the old-guard and their boomer lackeys to die-off, as was my hope for Kamala. Been almost 30-years since I locked-in on the idea that individual states will have to step-up if anything resembling modern human civilization, let alone Human Rights, are to survive.

Of course, the way the human rights fights are going, modern civilization looks debatable as an asset or liability. Gimme Solar Punk, damn-it.

And a d-bag willing to throw trans people under the bus. I really hope this walking turd isn't the 2028 nominee.

Just run Jon Stewart.

Reminder that he is a disgusting transphobe with no principles.

Well yeah. Newsome is 100% politics, he plays the game. The only principal he sticks to is the one that directly benefits him. He will say what he thinks gets the votes he needs, even and especially if it means trying to appeal to shitty cuntservatives who might lean into centrist, or corpos who might throw campaign contributions at him.