So in conclusion: Newsom's redistricting plan? Quite likely to work, probably a concerted plan by Democratics, very heartening. Newsom the presidential candidate? Imo DOA, unless he can convince you his rise is inevitable, which a lot of folks are unwittingly falling for. Use him & discard him.
I think you are underrating how quickly things may come to a head; there are scenarios where a de facto leader of the dem party needs to emerge way sooner than 2027. I don’t like him either, but he’s essentially the only dem right now who’s both doing and performing in that role.
I do not believe this is correct.
Well, at the moment, the sooner one does appear the sooner we can avoid the scenario of memeing Newsom into the candidacy. At the moment that looks to be Pritzker, as you've said, so I agree people should focus on boosting him over dunking on Newsom.
Do we need leadership now? Yes. Do the leaders of the party today have to be the Presidential candidate in 2028? of course not. in what other non-incumbent Democratic primary was the winner "chosen" a year into the previous term? Biden? How did that work out?
The more folks work themselves into "the Dems will shove Newsom down our throats!" the more likely they meme themselves into Newsom having a serious chance (but not a good one) in the primary. He is not a popular figure. Most Californians dislike him whenever he's not aimed at a Republican!
If you hate him, don't meme him into being a serious candidate. People's affections are going to waver anyways. We are really, really early in anything like a primary process & it's rare for the supposedly strong early candidate to actually make it all the way through of late.
I think he’d be fine. The biggest thing he championed in CA I can think of (actually funding universal TK when the state got the Covid budget surplus) has made my life much better. I like Pritzker too. I’ll be happy with either of them.
You didn't have Newsom agreeing with someone who said that your rights were fake and you should be prevented from medical transition until 26.
He’s signed a bunch of legislation protecting trans rights that, imo, far outweighs the podcast, which I wasn’t thrilled about. Eg Sb 107, ab 1955. I think the blowback was warranted but “he’s written off forever” is not
He also vetoed AB 2442, which would have provided significantly more accessible gender affirming care.
He did veto it; I’m not sure how much difference it would have made to access to care
not really sure why people feel a need to think that far ahead. Nobody knew who Obama was in 2005. Who knows, there could be another charismatic nonwhite person with a funny sounding name just hiding in a state senate or city council as we speak. Too early to treat Newsome as only choice.