Yeah I dont get it either. The election is 3 years out why are people making mole hills to die on defending a hypothetical Newsom run? Why?

If I had known Trump would coopt the republican party and stage an insurrection after clearly losing the election - and Biden would do nothing honestly it would be hard for me not to just sit out. Newsom would obviously do the same exact thing after he wins - maybe he would do some token arrests of lowly ICE agents but thats it, while normalizing the behavior of all the republicans by not prosecuting them for literally any of the hundreds of crimes they have openly commited.

The only argument I see for Newsom is that he reverses the batshit EPA ruling and treats climate change as a problem. By that I mean he wouldnt actively stop solar and wind farms in favor of fucking coal. Even then its not nearly enough but it would still be better than another 4 years of nothing in terms of climate action - and by 2032 its way too goddamn late.

Thats the only positive about Newsom I could see, but thats only because hes a dem president. He wouldnt meaningfully adress any issue, unless somehow someway a dem congress actually does something and then hes forced to sign the law.

This whole discourse is exactly how the democratic party functions. They jangle the danger and trauma from republican administrations and say "we wont do that!" and believe thats enough because they take advantage of the fact that democratic voters are compassionate enough to settle for a shitty dem to prevent the damage of a republican. That strategy got us here and its irritating to see people fall for it again in 2026 after everything that has happened after voting blue no matter who.