California governor Gavin Newsom desire tech executives to know they can call him if they ’re ever in a tinge . Yes , Politico is out witha weird unexampled storythat claims the political leader has been sending a “ prepaid , cheap electric cell phone ( unremarkably known as a burner , for those of you who have n’t seen ‘ The Wire ’ or ‘ Better Call Saul ’ ) ” to tech executives across the state . The phones have been sent to around 100 unlike CEOs , and come fit with Newsom ’s number , as well as a individualised note , the outlet write . “ If you ever require anything , I ’m a speech sound call away , ” show one note to an undisclosed executive .
It ’s a somewhat gonzo stunt to draw in , considering the fact that California ’s cytosine - retinue can already safelypresumethat Newsom ’s got their best interests at heart . More relevantly , in a sentence when the tech manufacture isbasically synonymouswith the authoritarian oligarchy taking over the state , why does it seem like a right mind to so publicly sign that you ’re on their side ?
It ’s almost as if someone recently handed the regulator a list of all the ways that he could potentially disaffect the people most likely to vote for him if he ever runs for President of the United States ( which many mass assumeis his recollective - term goal ) and he is now dutifully tick off them off . Seriously , what is the game plan here , man ? The occasional display of upright - natured corporate favoritism is common but what ’s being done to fire up the people who in reality go to the polls ?
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Newsom also latterly launched a podcast , This Is Gavin Newsom , whichhasn’t enjoyed much fanfare . Newsom ’s strategy with the podcast seems to be to court rightwing digit , politely debate them , and then attempt to find vulgar earth . If launch a podcast was technically a good estimate , the way that Newsom ’s team has gone about it is all wrong . Democratic voter want a champion who is conk out to fight back against the Republicans ’ most odious tendencies . They do n’t desire someone who is run low to buddy up to Charlie Kirk , a guy rope whoonce say thatpublic employee were “ worthless sponger , ” and whohas claimed thatthere is “ no separation between church and state , ” or Steve Bannon , Trump ’s OG hatchet man whose heart often seem to take the diabolic fires of the infernal region . Sentiment analysisof Newsom ’s podcast showed that many hearer were not peculiarly impressed .
Much ink has already been spill about the popular Party’scomplete and stark failureto meet the current moment . Recent polling shows that Democrats ’ favorability rating are at an all - meter low — an telling feat given that the opposing party is presently a maelstrom of chaos and destruction and is threaten to take away Americans ’ Social Security . The general consensus is that Democrats have no strategy , no political personal identity , and no balls ( bothfigurativelyandliterally ) . Jon Stewart’srecent takedownof the company ’s pitiful antics says it all .
If he want to win the adult plunder , Newsom needs to ensnare himself as a progressive instigant , not a “ temperate ” Democrat . The Democratic delusion that candidates can somehow discase moderate voter aside from the Republican company by seeming more cautious has never been borne out in the number . If Newsom were to fly the coop on a program that more resemble that of Bernie Sanders ( i.e. , economic populism , protecting Social Security and Medicaid , give care about human beings instead of just collective profits , etc . ) , while stay on moderationist on social outcome , I think he might have a shot at the White House . If , however , he continues to sell himself as a pantywaist translation of a Reagan - earned run average Republican , I do not believe the future wait bright for Newsom .
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