The modern left has a different "no matter who", I think. Currently my favorite expression of the thing comes from Dan Soder's podcast. I'm paraphrasing quite a bit here, but gist is that professional baseball and football have been proving for decades that you gotta have salary caps or the whole sport goes to shit. The people who have been the most disenfranchised for the longest currently aren't ready to hear what you have to say unless you're willing to start talking about "salary capping" billionaires so that you don't end up with all kinds of secret monstrous child sex abuse stuff on plantations all across the world in days on by as well as pretty recent memory. and islands both in the news and assumably other places even to this very day. What we're doing isn't working. The money's all made up anyway. We gotta rearrange the money in a manner that's gonna fix rich people's ability to hide entire islands of depravity, and while we're at it cause a little bit less war and less making people hustle so extra hard for such a large portion of their life, to the detriment of their health, their inner peace, and their ability to find a personally fulfilling way to contribute meaningfully to the betterment of others. Most of us want to be nice to each other. We're mad about how far off the mark everything is.

This sort of person would never take Newsom, because someone who gets their photo taken clearing out a homeless camp is utterly incapable of being "the guy" about any of the stuff that matters. He doesn't see the depravity of it, the abomination which brings desolation...