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An alternative title is “Newsom declares candidacy for US President in 2028 election”. He is certainly casting himself as the heel in the kayfabe that will be US politics in the next four years.
Edited to add: He is term limited, and his term runs out in 2026. So he will have nothing better to do.
Please no, he’s just another limousine liberal, up there with Hillary and the gang. I think people are done with that. Let’s get some real revolutionaries in there.
I’ll vote for the actual limousine if it has a chance of beating the next MAGA candidate, whether it’s Vance, Trump Jr, or Donald Trump with a fake mustache that fools no one but his voters. (And as long as that limousine wins a contested primary.)
That’s the issue with the hard right candidates, people keep settling for Republican-lite Dems that don’t address core economic problems because they’re left in comparison, then predictably they lose to far right politicians when their moderate reforms don’t do anything other than provide temporary relief. We need actual left politicians to institute radical structural changes if we ever want to break this cycle. Or a revolution, but given the way this country is going I have no faith that the victors in that would be on the left
Bernie 😢
Let’s get some real revolutionaries in there.
Do you want republicans to win the next election too?
If there’s another legitimate election, you want to double down on neoliberalism and trying to meet fascist in the middle yet again?
If we can’t elect a revolutionary, then it’s all over anyway until collapse, Trump is a symptom of the crony capitalist greed disease that’s infected both parties. It’s a shame we can’t even agree that our economy’s structure and incentives are the problem and requires drastic change, because without addressing that, nothing can begin to improve. It is the bloodsucking vampire elephant in the room.
next election?
Too?
What election?
I dont want him to run. I’m tired of seeing neoliberal-lite candidates running and being forces to hold my nose “bcz the other candidate is worse.”
We can and should do better than this guy.
Newsom isn’t neoliberal light, he’s about as neoliberal as it’s possible to be
No, please no. Newsom is a textbook greasy CA neoliberal, a Newsom presidency would do next to nothing for the working class and being a load of benefits to the wealthy.
I generally support his policies on education but his stances on housing, single payer healthcare, corruption and democratic representation are awful.
So far he’s: vetoed a statewide upzoning bill that would get dense housing built, vetoed ranked preference voting across CA, opposed single payer healthcare and let the CPUC ride roughshod over utility customers nonstop. The dude is Grey Davis’s protege and was basically raised by the Getty family, he’s absolutely not the candidate to run in a tight economy where populism is surging.
Newsome can do whatever he wants, but aside from seceding, there isn’t anything to stop P2025 now.
Except California has the 5th largest economy in the world. Good luck running the U.S. without their tax dollars.
That is secession. You’re trying to push a different agenda here.
Not pushing anything. They’ve threatened to stop paying taxes before. Look it up.
A threat is way different.
It’s crazy how often Lucy can yank that football away from you chumps.
I’d support a threat of secession.
Great.
See the Wikipedia of every other state who has tried under an non-authoritarian regime over the past 100 years.
The Tenth Amendment states
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So there are a fair amount of domestic affairs that California can take care of on its own. So Newsom cannot stop Project 2025, but he can make plans so that California citizens are not quite so adversely affected when certain administrative departments go poof.
Expect liberal states to make a point of scrutinizing this clause and suing the Federal Government when they think it has overstepped its bounds.
This is true and good. But with the Supreme Court in Trump’s pocket the results may not be great.
And the MAGA administration and supreme court will just laugh in our faces. We’re toast, man.
