He’s one of the leaders not standing up to trump.
“You Europeans need to learn how to stand up to Trump and the far-right fascists! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to my podcast, where I platform people like Steve Bannon, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk, rest his soul.”
“You’re appeasing Hitler again” has a more impactful tone I would think, especially if Europe is your target audience…
Go Away Gavin - is my new slogan
Hey, that should be *Go Away, Future President Gavin*
Nah, no way in hell that cardboard cutout of a human will win.
His job is to distract centrists with a candidate both the rightwing and leftwing hate and can tell is full of shit in order to doom Democrats to losing the next election by positioning a centrist, morally bankrupt politician to split the party and in the end only represent the interests of the rich.
It would honestly be hilarious seeing center “left” liberals getting openly played like this if the consequences weren’t so legitimately scary.
I would have fallen for that trap, honestly as a black liberal, if it wasn’t for Mamdani’s win showing progressivism is actually possible and not some tankie talking point.
This is exactly why the DNC and Democratic establishment was so incredibly hostile to Mamdani, figures like Newsom can only win in an extremely cynical environment where people openly accept corrupted, empty figureheads because there are no better options.
Newsom can only win if the DNC’s corporate centrist thesis that progressive politics and socialist policies are just too scary for the US public to understand and this is an unchangable fact of nature remains unchallenged and becomes reified as common knowledge.
All it takes is one example to disprove a rule, and Mamadani just did exactly that. This is an extinction level event for corporate centrist Democrats and Gavin is just too dumbly deferential to the status quo of the past to realize he is already a dinosaur and has been left behind in the dust by a new era.
You’re 100% correct, except for the part about him not winning. A “cardboard cutout of a human” is exactly what America wants. (Well, one with a penis at least – that’s why the last cardboard cutout lost).
And what have you done to stand up to him apart from trolling him on social media, Gavin?
Hey now, he’s also given air time to Trump’s cronies. Can’t say he’s done nothing.
Lame
It’s so cringe.
Newsom is correct. But he’s not the person I trust to do it.
T-Rex’s were born in the shit and had to take care of themselves their entires lives. Trump was born rich and is incapable of existing without servants. Make better comparisons.
you can be a shitty person and leader and still say correct things
It’s funny because Davos and Europe was looking to him to deal with an American problem. Now he’s blaming them. Also, Davos isn’t the image he’s going to want going in 2028.
