He's the "Diet Republican" brand of Democrat (most Democrats are but especially him), and people have already shown repeatedly that they arent interested in that.

People who want a Republican will vote for the real thing. People who don't want a Republican will vote for someone else. He's pandering to a crowd that doesn't exist in any significant size.

We need to push the DSA to replace these shitty centrist Democrats, just like the tea party replaced the old Republicans. It can be done.

Bingo, he runs with the hare and the hounds and lends credibility to the Republican notion that all dems are deeply corrupted.

It's banned forever!

Or until it is unbanned.

You don't, you make a bill, pass the bill and it stands as long as no one tries to fight it.

I hear you, but don't let the lack of a perfect solution be the enemy of progress. A one-time tax would still (theoretically) do some good, and not harm anybody. So long as those funds are properly allocated.

You'd be surprised. I thought the same thing about trump 2024. A lot of people only see newsom as a charismatic anti-trump, And don't actually see or care about his individual decisions or policies. Which, come to think of it, is very similar to how trump made it in.

The truly fucked part of government is the people who you'd want in the position absolutely want no part of the position. Almost everyone in government is in there for the money and the power. If you did manage to get someone in who is altruistic, they would simply be fighting against swarm upon swarm of horrible people, while at the same time refusing to take bribes and make personal deals to be able to advance any form of wealth.

For the most part, we've designed our government to only attract self-serving pieces of shit, and the few that aren't in that camp never make it to the top because of all the other self-serving pieces of shit.

We're looking at a sack of turds that occasionally does something anti-trump while licking the balls of some other oligarch, vs someone who walks out there talking centrist and campaigns for the right claiming they're very nice people.

It is entirely possible that the DNC puts him out front instead of AOC, then we're left with whoever trumps successor is (asuming we ever have actual real elections again), or some democrat right sycophant, or trying to convince everyone in the fucking US to write in a name.

We're cooked any way the cards fall

He looks like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho and the personality seems similar.

Now? No lol he’s been fascist light for a long time. He just vetoed a bill that would have given native Americans water rights on the kalamath river. He vetoed a bill that would have kept private equity out of primary care. He created an Anti-semitism task force to hunt down teachers who teach correct history about Israel or lead protests. He vetoes all the progressive legislation that passes. My favorite is his little podcast that apparently he has time to do while acting as governor on which he talks to fascists like Bannon, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk and sides with them