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Time for Gavin Newsom to start out measuring these White Home drapes.
Huh?
You understand, president of the US. I’m pondering one thing Earth-friendly, like recycled hemp.
Wait, what?
Did you catch the nationally televised speech the governor not too long ago gave? The one about “democracy at a crossroads.”
I did.
It was a fantastic 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 lots justified in his anger and contempt. Trump, performing true to his flame-fanning style, 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 considered one of his favourite phrases.
I’ll grant you that. Not like loads of extracurricular actions geared toward boosting his presidential prospects, Newsom was addressing a Trump-manufactured disaster unfolding proper right here at dwelling. It was a second that known 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 acquired loads 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 in opposition to Trump and his many excesses. Newsom did a very good job channeling these feelings and articulating the risks of an imprudent president run amok.
However let’s not go overboard.
There may be no lack of Democrats wanting to tackle Trump and turn into the face of the so-called resistance. There isn’t any 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 price range deficit. Huge revenue inequality.
Plus, loads 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 unsuitable. I like California with all my coronary heart and soul. However we’ve got loads of deep-seated issues and cultural idiosyncrasies that Newsom’s rivals — Democrat and Republican — could be solely too joyful 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 based mostly on a single — albeit well-received — speech. It’s nonetheless exhausting to see Democrats turning the get together’s destiny over to 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 likelihood to weigh in on Trump and his actions. The decision will go a great distance towards shaping the dynamic in 2028.
Effectively at the 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 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.
Take into account, 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 a very good 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 impression the granting of wildfire aid, Trump mentioned, “Yeah, possibly.”
He known as Newsom incompetent, trotted out extra gobbledygook about raking forests after which soliloquized on the character of non-public relationships. “Once you don’t like any person, don’t respect any person, it’s more durable for that particular person to get cash for those who’re on prime,” Trump mentioned.
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 proper factor for the American folks.”
Laborious 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.
