From The Daily Beast, “Never let a crisis go to waste are words to live by if you are California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is cruising to re-election less than a year after beating a recall effort. Confident after being resurrected politically, Newsom is jumping into the void created by a president disinclined to take the fight to the opposition, and a Democratic Party afraid of its own shadow. … Democrats need to get out of their defensive crouch and take the fight to the Republicans. Who better to do it than Newsom, governor of a state that has the fifth-largest economy in the world? He has a platform, and he has been frustrated for some time over his party’s timidity in confronting the radicalization of the Republican Party, epitomized in the recent string of extreme Supreme Court rulings on abortion, guns, and climate.”
Unfortunately, one governor cannot save the Democratic Party from it’s incompetence. Newsom has the right instinct and the right message, but sadly it’s the party’s leadership — starting at the very top — that lacks the fortitude, decisiveness, and ruthlessness to combat RepubliKKKlans effectively.