Newsom effectively wants the Dems to be less progressive. From my perspective, the Dems continue to lose because they continue to shaft their progressive constituents, of which there are many.

Things have shifted so far to the right in the US that mainline Dems would be considered conservative in many other countries of the world. The US does not have a left party, progressive or otherwise. If you accept this, then it's easy to suggest Newsom is just one other centrist masquerading as a leftist. His claims here support that view.

There are many, many other reasons not to like Newsom, but ultimately he is a symptom of a much deeper problem.

Watching a few of his answers and the smarmy face he maintains throughout them makes me wonder why anyone in the know thinks this guy has a chance in the primary.

That's rich coming from a dude who wants to see corporations control our identities, we use less resources but AI data centers and the Epstein class can leave the faucet running all while claiming he cares about the middle class.

Shit he might just win...

Who decides what's normal, Newsom? FUCK YOU

Democratic voters to Newsom: Fuck off.

I think Newsom is the one who could take notes on what’s culturally normal.

Well now I’m just gonna be weird EVEN HARDER.

It'll never cease to amaze (read: infuriate) me how conservatives and establishment dems continuously say that trans issues are getting a "disproportionate amount of time" when we weren't ever going to get jack shit from Biden or Harris outside of a mention here or there.

It of course goes without saying that these issues don't detract from other ones and time can and should be spent on them all. It also of course goes without saying that Newsom can eat a dick.

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Stop being hypercapitalist swine

Define normal pissant. I'm sure my Inland Imperial cultural norms would rub a shitstain like Newsome in all the wrong ways, least of all my absolute contempt for authority.

Ok, so if we want to win we should do the opposite thing then.

You mean be more like Kamala.....

I can't hear what you're saying with all that shoe pollish in your mouth.

You gonna take a bite of that turds sandwich?

Coming from the most abnormal idiot

But people will still hold their noses and claim, "He's better than Trump!"

I’ll never vote for a democrat again it Newsom gets the nomination, for any office, of any power. There needs to be consequences for a party that’s supposed to be an opposition party. And before you loser “vote blue no matter who” people run your jaws: I will never vote for a republican either and never have. Stand for something for once in your miserable lives instead of proving that you would support trump/vance if their party affiliation was Democrat.

Divide-the-left effort going hard here.

You can tell because they have no alternative, only offering demotivation/departicipation

Gavin Israel First Newsom

If he's trying to say we should stop falling into the framing given to us by the unhinged right that talks way more about trans than trans probably do (Donvict just drops random phrases into his rambling monologues now: "transgender for everybody" and "men in women's sports"), he's not wrong about that.

I heard a far more nuanced take on this kind of thing on Pod Save America, by the way.

I'd rather they stand up for oppressed people.

"Just collaborate harder, bro"

Fucking corrupt, piece-of-shit Democrats.

Culturally normal like chatting with Steve Bannon? And focus on kitchen table issues like vetoing caps to insulin prices? The fuck does this guy know about "culturally normal"?

We all know his campaign is dead on arrival, it's just weird that people keep treating him like a viable candidate. He's not good enough at talking sincerely (or at least faking sincerely) to make a campaign about chastising his own party and seeking approval from our actual enemies work. He can skate by on controlled media appearances, but as soon as anyone actually presses him on his positions and history he's going to come across as blue Mitt Romney.

Give his social media manager a job working for someone who matters and stop wasting airtime on yet another vanity run by a rich man.

Newsom vetoed public health care bill in California

Is culturally normal denying an ongoing genocide?

"Culturally normal" - This guy was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Edit: What's normal is up for debate. Some said speaking about Palestine was not normal and that appears to have had a major impact on the last election.

he means support the status quo like schumer and hakeem jefferies.

Libs: "Vote blue no matter who!"