which means a LOT of this discourse is people who have a sufficiently Good Reason To Be Upset that nobody really wants to gainsay their emotions ignoring the actual activity of Newsom's administration vis a vis some shit he said on a podcast and preëmptively declaring they won't vote in '28
Some of it is also a negative polarization response from interacting with the shittiest Stans on Bsky yelling at them their objections are handing the country to Trump or even jeering triumphantly about it. Never underestimate the siloing effect of social media.
at some point you begin to wonder if they started with their conclusions and worked backwards in whatever way seemed the most defensible, whether or not they realised that's what they were doing