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Time for Gavin Newsom to begin measuring these White Home drapes.
Huh?
You understand, president of america. I’m pondering one thing Earth-friendly, like recycled hemp.
Wait, what?
Did you catch the nationally televised speech the governor lately gave? The one about “democracy at a crossroads.”
I did.
It was a high quality speech and the governor made some necessary 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 Seaside.)
Newsom was loads justified in his anger and contempt. Trump, performing true to his flame-fanning trend, turned what was a middling set of protests — nothing native regulation enforcement couldn’t deal with — into yet one more assault on our sorely examined Structure.
Newsom’s speech definitely “met the second,” to make use of certainly one of his favourite phrases.
I’ll grant you that. Not like a variety of extracurricular actions aimed toward boosting his presidential prospects, Newsom was addressing a Trump-manufactured disaster unfolding proper right here at dwelling. It was a second that referred to as for gubernatorial management.
Simply the type of management despondent Democrats want.
So it’s been mentioned.
It’s not a lot of a leap to see Newsom main the anti-Trump opposition clear to the White Home!
Really, that’s a much bigger leap than it takes to clear the Grand Canyon.
Granted, Newsom’s speech obtained a variety of raves from Democrats throughout the nation. Many are determined for somebody able of energy to present voice to their blood-boiling, cranium-exploding rage in opposition to Trump and his many excesses. Newsom did job channeling these feelings and articulating the hazards of an imprudent president run amok.
However let’s not go overboard.
There is no such thing as a lack of Democrats wanting to tackle Trump and develop into the face of the so-called resistance. There is no such thing as a scarcity of Democrats eyeing a 2028 bid for the White Home. Those that run gained’t be schlepping all of the political baggage that Newsom has to tote.
Equivalent to?
Rampant homelessness. An exploding price range deficit. Huge revenue inequality.
Plus, a variety of social insurance policies that many Californians think about beneficent and broad-minded that, to place it mildly, others across the nation think about a lot much less so. Don’t get me unsuitable. I like California with all my coronary heart and soul. However now we have a variety of deep-seated issues and cultural idiosyncrasies that Newsom’s rivals — Democrat and Republican — can be solely too joyful to hold round his neck.
So let’s not get too caught up within the second. The basics of the 2028 presidential race haven’t modified based mostly on a single — albeit well-received — speech. It’s nonetheless arduous to see Democrats turning the get together’s destiny over to yet one more nominee spawned within the liberal stew of San Francisco politics and campaigning with kooky California as a house deal with.
Stranger issues have occurred.
True.
That mentioned, 2028 is a zillion political gentle years and numerous information cycles away. First come the midterm elections in November 2026, giving voters their probability to weigh in on Trump and his actions. The decision will go a good distance towards shaping the dynamic in 2028.
Effectively not less than 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 feel it’s greatest to go away the snark to professionals.
I do, nevertheless, have some sympathy for the governor. It’s not straightforward coping with somebody as spiteful and amoral because the nation’s ax-grinder-in-chief.
Think about, for example, the catastrophe reduction 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 type of federal assist 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 gave the impression to be one.
However few issues final with the transactional Trump, save for his pettiness and self-absorption. Requested final week if his “current dust-ups” with Newsom would influence the granting of wildfire reduction, Trump mentioned, “Yeah, perhaps.”
He referred to as Newsom incompetent, trotted out extra gobbledygook about raking forests after which soliloquized on the character of non-public relationships. “If you don’t like any individual, don’t respect any individual, it’s more durable for that individual to get cash in the event you’re on prime,” Trump mentioned.
Yeesh.
Responding in a posting on X, Newsom appropriately famous, “Sucking as much as the President shouldn’t be a requirement for him to do the best factor for the American individuals.”
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. Hundreds 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.
