No, please no. Newsom is a textbook greasy CA neoliberal, a Newsom presidency would do next to nothing for the working class and bring a load of benefits to the wealthy.

I generally support his policies on education, environmental protection and long term economic stability but his positions 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 statewide near public transit corridors, vetoed ranked preference voting across CA, opposed single payer healthcare and let the CPUC ride roughshod over utility customers and saddle them with PG&E’s felonious wildfire liability. 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.

Edit: fun fact, we called him Teflon Gavin when he ran San Francisco. Nothing sticks to this guy’s PR. Fox news consumers have had 10+y of “commie California’s Gavin Newsom” poured into their heads in preparation for his eventual Whitehouse run and that will matter when he presents his slick well-fed wealthy self to middle America.

Her performance on The View was absolutely, hilariously, abysmal. They asked her something like “what would you have done differently from Biden to grow the economy?” and she replied with a canned “We’re very proud of Bidenomics” and no further elaboration 🤷‍♂️

Like, yeah, sure, Bidenomics has been great for the top 20%, but what about everyone else who’s had to move back in with their parents? She demonstrated absolutely zero understanding of the economic reality for 4/5 of the population.

Democrats have absolutely shit messaging and refuse to speak to the working class unless they deign to condescend and you’re blaming checks notes “blue MAGA”? What planet are you on?

He rambled at great length about making America great again and bringing back jobs and Kamala told folks that nothing will change. If you’re struggling to understand why things went this way I’m not sure I can help.

At the very least Democrats probably should have told people they’d do something to help them instead of just assuming that people would intuit that over the long term Democrat economic policy would be more stable and provide better net growth.

People in the US are dumb as shit, you have to explain things to them and make them feel like you’re paying attention. This is something Democrats have utterly failed to do reliably since Clinton 1 or Obama and it’s why they lose elections. They’re quite literally out of touch and don’t realize it’s not the 70s or 90s when blue collar workers would reliably back them because they’d (relatively recently) supported the labor movement and life was, overall, pretty good for everyone. You can’t run on a policy of inclusion and civil rights for marginalized groups when the main voting group is struggling to make their own lives work.

Yeah, this is exactly what I’m saying. You don’t win a fucking popularity contest by choosing to ignore 80% of voters or tell them that “we wouldn’t do anything differently” after 50y of wage stagnation during a housing crisis.

Democrats would have benefited greatly from telling the public that they were going to do anything at all about 30+y of neoliberal policy that benefits Wall St at the expense of the bottom 80%. This election (and every election since Obama left office) was a referendum on business as usual neoliberal policy at the working class’s expense. You could get away with that in the 90s, but when the working class can’t earn enough to rent their own apartment or start a life they’ll vote for literally anything else, including a convicted rapist and con man.

Harris’s platform was literally “we’ll keep doing the same things that haven’t been working for the bottom 85% for 30y” and people are shocked she didn’t win the election. This was a referendum on neoliberal business as usual and they lost, hard.

Will they learn from this or accept any responsibility or change their platform for the next race? Find out over the next couple of weeks as they scramble to find a scapegoat to blame instead of actually thinking about policies that would help the vast majority of the public.

No shit? The first Trump admin absolutely gutted the CDC and the FDA and red states suppressed any discussion of pandemic spread by either harassing or firing public health officials who dared to speak publicly. DeSantis sent a SWAT style raid team to one public health lady’s house at 3am because she wouldn’t shut up and fall in line. So yeah, no shit our public health apparatus isn’t functioning.

If you want to be terrified go look at the public health folks on Twitter try to track H5N1 spread. It’s way more virulent than COVID, sticks around in the air and on surfaces significantly longer and we’ve been effectively ignoring it as it spreads through much of our cow, chicken and pork farms. The CDC and Dept of agriculture are supposed to be on top of situations like this and they’re too scared to talk to the public for fear of being fired.

Never underestimate the obstruction from establishment Democrats at every level of government. We passed a bill authorizing statewide use of ranked preference voting in CA and our neoliberal democrat governor Gavin Newsom vetoed it. I generally support his policies but this one was a flat out “fuck you” to everyone alienated by the neoliberal business as usual party that runs our state.

This election, like every failed election effort since 2000, was a referendum on the democratic party platform: neoliberal business as usual for the top 15% sprinkled with “we’re not Republicans”