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Time for Gavin Newsom to start out measuring these White Home drapes.
Huh?
, president of america. I’m considering one thing Earth-friendly, like recycled hemp.
Wait, what?
Did you catch the nationally televised speech the governor just lately gave? The one about “democracy at a crossroads.”
I did.
It was a superb speech and the governor made some vital factors about President Trump’s reckless commandeering of California’s Nationwide Guard, his administration’s indiscriminate immigration raids and the wholly pointless dispatch of Marines to Los Angeles. (From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Venice Seashore.)
Newsom was loads justified in his anger and contempt. Trump, performing true to his flame-fanning vogue, turned what was a middling set of protests — nothing native legislation enforcement couldn’t deal with — into one more assault on our sorely examined Structure.
Newsom’s speech actually “met the second,” to make use of one in every of his favourite phrases.
I’ll grant you that. In contrast to quite a lot of extracurricular actions aimed toward boosting his presidential prospects, Newsom was addressing a Trump-manufactured disaster unfolding proper right here at residence. It was a second that known as for gubernatorial management.
Simply the type of management despondent Democrats want.
So it’s been stated.
It’s not a lot of a leap to see Newsom main the anti-Trump opposition clear to the White Home!
Truly, that’s a much bigger leap than it takes to clear the Grand Canyon.
Granted, Newsom’s speech acquired quite a lot of raves from Democrats throughout the nation. Many are determined for somebody ready of energy to provide voice to their blood-boiling, cranium-exploding rage towards Trump and his many excesses. Newsom did an excellent job channeling these feelings and articulating the risks of an imprudent president run amok.
However let’s not go overboard.
There isn’t a lack of Democrats wanting to tackle Trump and develop into the face of the so-called resistance. There isn’t a scarcity of Democrats eyeing a 2028 bid for the White Home. Those that run received’t be schlepping all of the political baggage that Newsom has to tote.
Comparable to?
Rampant homelessness. An exploding finances deficit. Huge revenue inequality.
Plus, quite a lot of social insurance policies that many Californians contemplate beneficent and broad-minded that, to place it mildly, others across the nation contemplate a lot much less so. Don’t get me improper. I like California with all my coronary heart and soul. However now we have quite a lot of deep-seated issues and cultural idiosyncrasies that Newsom’s rivals — Democrat and Republican — could be solely too pleased to hold round his neck.
So let’s not get too caught up within the second. The fundamentals of the 2028 presidential race haven’t modified primarily based on a single — albeit well-received — speech. It’s nonetheless arduous to see Democrats turning the celebration’s destiny over to one more nominee spawned within the liberal stew of San Francisco politics and campaigning with kooky California as a house tackle.
Stranger issues have occurred.
True.
That stated, 2028 is a zillion political mild years and numerous information cycles away. First come the midterm elections in November 2026, giving voters their likelihood to weigh in on Trump and his actions. The decision will go a good distance towards shaping the dynamic in 2028.
Effectively at the very least Newsom has introduced his A-game to social media. His trolling of Trump is one thing to behold!
No matter.
You’re not impressed?
I believe it’s finest to depart the snark to professionals.
I do, nevertheless, have some sympathy for the governor. It’s not simple coping with somebody as spiteful and amoral because the nation’s ax-grinder-in-chief.
Think about, as an illustration, the catastrophe aid cash that fire-devastated Southern California is relying on. Serving to the area in its time of determined want shouldn’t be remotely political, or a part of some red-vs.-blue-state feud. Traditionally, that form of federal help has by no means been.
However that is Trump we’re coping with.
To his credit score, Newsom tried making good within the days and weeks following the January firestorm. He ignored the president’s provocations and held what was later described an an amicable session with Trump within the Oval Workplace. Their working relationship appeared to be an excellent one.
However few issues final with the transactional Trump, save for his pettiness and self-absorption. Requested final week if his “latest dust-ups” with Newsom would impression the granting of wildfire aid, Trump stated, “Yeah, perhaps.”
He known as Newsom incompetent, trotted out extra gobbledygook about raking forests after which soliloquized on the character of non-public relationships. “While you don’t like any person, don’t respect any person, it’s tougher for that individual to get cash in the event you’re on prime,” Trump stated.
Yeesh.
Responding in a posting on X, Newsom accurately famous, “Sucking as much as the President shouldn’t be a requirement for him to do the fitting factor for the American folks.”
Arduous to argue with that.
But right here we’re.
The nation’s second-most populous metropolis is occupied by Nationwide Guard and Marine troops. 1000’s of individuals — displaced by catastrophe, their previous lives gone up in smoke — are hostage to the whims of a peevish president who at all times places his emotions first and cares nothing for the better good.
The midterm elections can’t come quickly sufficient.
