California Governor Gavin Newsom hopes tech executives know they can call him if they get stuck. Yes, Politico has a weird new story that claims political leaders have been sending “prepaid, cheap phones (usually burners, usually burners, and burners) to tech executives across the state. The calls have been sent to about 100 different CEOs and equipped with Newsom’s phone numbers, along with personalized notes. “If you need anything, I’m a phone call,” reads the notes of an undisclosed executive.
It's a weird stunt considering the fact that California's C-Suite has already safely assumed Newsom's best interests hold their best interests firmly. More relevant, why it seems like a good idea to show that you are standing by their side in a time when the tech industry is basically a synonymous era when autocratic oligarchs occupy the country?
Almost like recently someone handed the governor to the governor that if he had run for president (many think it was his long-term goal), he might alienate the list of all the ways people most likely to vote for him, and now he is faithfully snatching them out. Seriously, what is the governor’s game plan? It is common to show good corporate preference occasionally, but what did you do to fire people who actually participate in the polls?
Newsom also recently launched a podcast, which is Gavin Newsom, and it has no big fanfare. Newsom's strategy in the podcast seems to be to debate them politely in the courts of the right, and then try to find common ground with them. If it is a good idea to launch a podcast technically, the way Newsom's team is growing is wrong. Democratic voters want a champion who will fight the Republican’s most hateful tendencies. They don't want a man who wants to go to a partner, Charlie Kirk, who once said public employees were “worthless parasites” and claimed “there is no separation between the church and the country”, or Trump's OG Hatchet man Steve Bannon, whose eyes are usually able to convey the underground fires below. Sentiment analysis of Newsom podcasts shows that many listeners are not particularly impressed.
The ink about the complete and total failure of the Democrats is completely unable to satisfy the current moment has already overflowed a lot of ink. Recent polls have shown that Democrats’ favorable ratings are at an all-time low, an impressive feat, given that the other party is currently a whirlpool of chaos and destruction and threatening to take social security away. The general consensus is that the Democrats have no strategy, no political identity, and no ball (both figurative and literal). Jon Stewart recently took everything from the party's unfortunate antics.
If he wants to win the jackpot, Newsom must use himself as a firepower for progress, rather than a “moderate” Democrat. The candidate’s democratic delusion can somehow strip more moderate voters from the Republican Party, which never seems to have received more conservatives. If Newsom was to run on a platform that was more like Bernie Sanders (i.e. economic populism, protecting social security and Medicaid, caring for humanity, not just corporate profits, etc.), while still remaining centrist on social issues, I think he might shoot in the White House. But if he continues to sell himself as a Mirquitst version of the Reagan-era Republican, I don't think the future of News Magazine looks bright.
