I have been screaming for years that Democrats should stand and fight back on the meme/social-media front!
The second a Democratic governor show some spine:
"Newsom isn't pure enough."
And this is exactly why we so fucking always lose. Fuck all y'all.
Gavin Newsom's an establishment politician first and anything else second.
He's vetoed trans protections, sold out unions and appeared on a far right podcast to showcase his anti trans views.
For now he's an opponent of fascism, but his interests are not the interests of the American people. He'll gladly sell us out if it benefits his career.
This is kinda juvenile, but you can't deny it's also fucking great because you know it gets to him.
Newsom did the math. He is the only high ranking neoliberal Democrat, who activly fights Trump. It is very obvious that fighting Trump is incredibly popular and also that all of the further left candidates are not going to get funding from billionaires. That puts Newsom into a very strong position to become the next US president, if there is a free and fair election.
We already have a name and flag ready to go if we become our own country.
I guess I'm glad somebody on the left is finally reciprocating the populist style memeing necessary to contend with trump and current far right politics. "Fighting fire with fire" would feel a lot better though if our flamethrower supported trans rights, among other things.
Trump won twice not just by being a memelord but by leaning fully into the populism necessary for his base. You can't achieve a 'left' version of that by just meeting him at the meme level. The contending policies have to be so popular that they're obvious.
The second Newsom stops being a transphobe is when he gets my vote.
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