Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment.
Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
"WS: [Newsome] is not saying he’s sorry. He’s not apologizing for anything. And I think that liberals sometimes apologize ... when they push the boundary like that. Other times there’s just something apologetic in their demeanor. They’re embarrassed to be doing it. And I think that it is crippling."
I've been saying this for a while: Democrats hate politics. They're embarrassed by it; they think it's beneath them.
Newsom actually seems to love it, and the Democratic base has been so hungry for leaders in their party who will voice full throated opposition to all of it.
