Because they clearly see elections as “taxis”, not “buses” or “trains”. They require perfection to even lift a finger. They do not understand intersectionality, or that there are many marginalized communities, not just their pet ones. They don’t actually care about the result, only the process.
The problem is that I do see the election as a train, and I see Newsom's showing up on MAGA podcasts to agree with their Project 2025 talking points about my community as a boxcar to a concentration camp. Does that help?
Do you honestly believe Newsom could be worse for trans people than the GOP? I am opposed to him getting the nom, but there are 50 primaries and I get one vote. I’ll support a progressive candidate. I always do; and they always lose to a fucking centrist. The entire GOP is evil. They MUST lose.
Yes. I think that having the Democrats adopting Project 2025 rhetoric and goals would end up worse for my community, because that would mean the end of any reasonable amount of legislative resistance to MAGA attempts to eradicate us. Losing our allies is a death sentence. That's what makes
genocide possible. If Newsom wins over a progressive, the GOP will win, because people who want GOP policies already vote GOP, and people who oppose GOP policies aren't going to vote for a guy who is running on GOP policies. It's literally because the GOP is evil that I don't understand why this
is so hard. Newsom is actively hanging out on GOP pundit media, agreeing with GOP pundits about GOP policy.
He was doing that for months, but I think he sees the writing on the wall, and has stopped it - motivated by opportunism, not justice, of course!
Ok. Has he publicly renounced the positions he held on those shows, and done anything to demonstrate that he's changed his mind BACK to what it was before?
Oh yeah, I believe you’re totally right about that. The Establishment Dems’ centrism seems more mercenary than ideological. They’ve forgotten that the purpose of elections is voting, not fundraising. When we offer a candidate who appeals to lower income voters, we win. To Wall St.? We lose.
And this is why we're campaigning against Newsom NOW. To make it clear years out that he's not an acceptable candidate. Not that it matters, because everyone seems to be responding as though we're already in the general for 2028.
I don’t think he’s had his coronation just yet. His new-found spine is improving his image, but much of that is the novelty of his team’s strategy. We want to see the asshole punch the bully, but that doesn’t mean we LIKE the asshole now.
I hope so.
Notice the reluctance to engage with Gavin Newsom's targets.
They live entirely in their own heads, convinced that they KNOW every politician’s motives, and they don’t even bother to weigh the impact of a GOP win to their pet cause. There is NO real-world scenario in which Trump’s victory could’ve helped the Gazan people, or homeless people, or trans people.
Sucks your cult prefers to lose rather than give up their atrocities Maybe that's a huge fucking problem you should focus on instead of whining about people who actually have souls
When my “pet cause” is my life or the lives of people I care about, then yeah, I’ve weighed the impact and decided voting for Gavin is not worth my time
Thanks. I’ll help try to find a better candidate than Gavin - we have until mid-2028. But in November 2028, there will be two choices on the ballot, and one WILL win. They will not be the same, and I would rather try to mitigate harm than inflate my ego by pretending there’s some third option.