GOOD WITH GAV? Is Mega-phony Gavin Newsom the Finest the Democrats Can Do? [OP-ED]

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By The New York Submit Editorial Board

Gavin Newsom admits he has an eye fixed on a 2028 presidential run, and the unhappy factor is: The California governor is perhaps the most effective Democrats can handle.

Not like ex-Veep Kamala Harris and others (Pete Buttigieg), he can faux he was unaware of President Joe Biden’s sagging colleges with out triggering open laughter.

Not like Pennsylvania’s Gov. Josh Shapiro, he’s toed the far-left recurrently sufficient to (maybe) be acceptable to the celebration’s base, who might discover working a white male non-socialist acceptable if it will probably get them again to energy.

Newsom’s additionally put some effort into seeming quasi-moderate: In California, he’s vetoed a far-left invoice or three almost yearly to sign his “reasonableness,” however the pretend moderation barely runs skin-deep.

The horrors of Los Angeles’ Figueroa Avenue, for instance, have now made nationwide information: The red-light district sprawls alongside dozens of blocks, lined with preteen ladies in lingerie, many plucked from the foster-care system, pimped out by cold-blooded traffickers — so overtly that the realm is now often called the “Kiddie Stroll.”

And Newsom bears prime duty, having signed the obscenely misnamed “Safer Streets for All Act” in 2022, which banned cops from arresting suspected prostitutes for loitering — and so eradicating a key instrument for police to rescue children dragooned into the intercourse commerce.

He’s such a phony, as in a latest podcast the place he forged his upbringing as a scrappy school-of-hard-knocks, claimed he grew up on “Surprise Bread” and “mac and cheese” and his mom “hustled” to pay payments, “grinding each single day” and dealing “two and a half jobs” whereas sports activities bought him “into faculty.”

All bull: His mother would possibly’ve labored just a few menial gigs post-divorce, however his father was a massively profitable lawyer who managed the funds of the billionaire Getty household, which has sponsored Newsom for his complete “enterprise” and political profession.

In an early bout of podcast fakery, he informed the late Charlie Kirk that he noticed transgender athletes in ladies’ and ladies’s sports activities as “deeply unfair” and admitted to Shawn Ryan that Democrats’ place on gender reassignments for minors is a “main drawback” for the celebration.

However he’s by no means truly taken a agency stand that will upset the Dem base on both entrance.

He’s slammed President Donald Trump for not being a greater position mannequin, whereas calling him a “son of a bitch” in the identical breath; he’s criticized his celebration for specializing in “persona” over substance, whereas trolling on-line with Trump-like social-media posting.

He’s stated Democrats have to clarify what they “stand for,” whereas he shapeshifts by the hour, decrying wokeism in a single interview after which saying that “anti-woke stuff is simply anti-black” in one other.

He clearly expects the left-leaning nationwide media to cowl for his contradictions and for his failures from Figueroa to the Los Angeles wildfires, to cover how the Golden State is falling aside on his watch, as residents flee excessive taxes, excessive value of dwelling and plummeting high quality of life.

The servile California media have made that simpler for his or her nationwide comrades, however Newsom’s in for an disagreeable shock on that entrance.