So don't support him if you believe that. The problem I keep seeing here is a focus on imperfect Dems and not our shared enemy: Trump/MAGA. The reason we're even talking about him is because he's getting so much attention fighting back. The purity left's instinct is to then help MAGA...
...by undermining him from the left. I am genuinely bemused by this behavior.
My enemy is fascism and bigotry. MAGA is one example of this. Gavin Newsom is a more cowardly, neoliberal version of the same bigotry. No principles he won’t abandon for a win means the moment being on my ‘side’ is less useful than not, he’ll do the exact same thing as my enemies.
Lumping Newsom in with MAGA simply makes you either uninformed or irrational or both. You are free to be as uninformed and irrational as you want, but you can't also expect to be influential.
You’re so desperate for us to vote for you so clearly we’re influential enough. I wasn’t talking about the healthcare one, by the way.
With MAGA in charge, of course I'm desperate for every potential vote. The problem is YOUR lack of desperation; your willingness to tolerate MAGA in power is bizarre to me. In 2023 he vetoed two Trans bills. One was about med licenses, and that one needed to be vetoed.
The other was AB 957, which also wasn't good. It didn't define "affirmation" in custody battles and judges already have the power to consider it, however defined. The veto had nothing to do not supporting Trans rights, and passing it would not have forwarded Trans right in any substantive way.
He is not trustworthy. He is a losing candidate. He will hurt me and my people. So he can run his race, I might even tell people to vote for him. But I will never stop criticising his abhorrent behaviour. If he wanted to be a slam dunk candidate the polling has been clear for years.
But he decided to spend his time in office undermining the rights of workers and that trust doesn’t come back by doing the bare fucking minimum and trolling Donald Trump like a teenager.
I've noticed a pattern of accusations against Newsom, painting him as a rightwing monster who is actively trying to hurt Trans people and workers. And when I look at it, the evidence never shows this. He compromises, yes, but so will all politicians. It just likes like purity to me.
I don't give a fuck what he's TRYING to do. I give a fuck what he IS doing. He vetoed the good law, he didn't even need to compromise!
He vetoed a bad law. He didn't do it to be a jerk, several advocacy and medical groups explained that it had the potential to undermine health access for other groups. He has approved other policies to expand healthcare, however. I'm guessing you didn't know that or don't care.