George Rebane

Gavin Newsom is on both a national and international tear burnishing his name if not his credentials as a serious Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election.  The Right has long lamented that our electorate has a dangerously large intellectual deficit.  The evidence in the nation’s and states’ voting record provides overwhelming evidence for this.  But now we should take note of the Left’s corroborating assessment of this in that no one in the Democrat Party leadership has stepped forward to advise against Newsom’s run as being harmful to the party’s overall prospects.

Newsom’s record as governor for seven years and the California Democrats’ record as the decades long controlling party of the legislature (including with super-majorities), statewide elective offices, and its manifold bureaucracies is there for all to see in the state and federal governments’ own numbers, daily news broadcasts, and simple conversations with neighbors.  In regard to governance, California is in the toilet along every metric one can dredge up – unemployment, homelessness, welfare, debt, housing, education, crime, illegal alien population, cost of living, regulatory overreach, … .  Consider that there is not one single policy, piece of legislation, initiative, government program, etc from the Democrats that has improved the lives of the state’s taxpayers, and the quality of life of its citizens in general.  Only the nation’s largest number of takers and the super-rich still continue to see California as the golden state.

So now the view of our electorate as being under the control of the nation’s double dummies is complete – both sides of the political aisle have again rendered their verdict with the running of Newsom added to recent elections of radical left Democrat socialists and communists-in-training.  Piling on to this hilarity is the rank and file of Democrats who don’t hold themselves responsible for dismal states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California to name a few.  Further confirmation was provided this week by one of the Democrats’ leading lights, Whoopie Goldberg (since 2007 the co-host of ABC’s The View) who stated on national television that the deplorable condition of California was “not Newsom’s fault” – the blame lay on Republicans.

(I’ll save venting my spleen on the Republicans’ lame response to all this for another time.  Past posts make clear how misdirected is our Right in fighting the nation’s dumbth.)