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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s the best. There will be a primary and the most popular candidate will win. Until then, he is the de facto leader of the Democratic Party.

And maga is freaking out. Just look at all the comments on this thread alone.[/quote]

You aren’t understanding. It’s CA Democrats who are posting we can’t stand him.

He’s a nepobaby who got tapped to be a politician by an intertwined family /very close friends of intertwined connected SF elite- Governor Browns (father and son), the Newsom family, the Getty’s and Pelosi families.

He’s a guy who got 960 on his SAT and lives saying he got in because of baseball. Yet he only tried out and never practiced or played games with the baseball team.

He got in because he was so well connected his family got letters of recommendations from power people.

Newsom’s family solicited letters of recommendation from former Gov. Jerry Brown, who appointed his father William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor. His father was also and advisor to the Getty family. He also go a letter from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.

Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.

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You could write very similar stories about FDR and John Kennedy.  Neither were the “best and brightest” of their generation, and advanced on someone else’s coattails.  But I’d sure take them today.[/quote]

A very different era. [b]That was the 1920s, 1930s and 40s. When the offspring of the elite often grew up with a sense of purpose and obligation. JFK jr was probably the last remnant of that era,[/b] which I don't think he wanted. But it's a different time today. In 2025, does anyone want Mark Zuckerberg's kids or the Walmart heirs running anything?

The inherited rich have been useless for a very long time now. And actually, the wealthy offspring of successful families are often the enemy to all that is good and decent about America. Leave those children to their instagram posts and do not encourage wealthy parasites to become involved in politics. Money matters so much in contemporary politics. But we really don't need useless, untalented rich kids to represent anyone today. That time is done.

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How soon George W. Bush has been forgotten. Ouch. George W. = great grandson of American steel scion. grandson of U.S. senator and business executive. son of former POTUS. [/quote]

But you'll note that the Bush family is done as a political force in America today. The only person keeping the Kennedy family relevant in 2025 is Trump. Just boomer legacy bc Trump is old and that's a catch for him.

There aren't any other scions of prominent families making a name for themselves today. Now it's all dark money - like Ken Griffen at Citadel and the hedge fund money or Miriam Adelson and the casino money. Not good people. The billionaire people today are profoundly trashy. There is no Roosevelt or Kennedy family today. Those that inherit all that money nowadays tend to be very scummy individuals - whether the Walton family or the Sackler family and so on.

It's been decades since anyone with inherited wealth did anything good. And Newsom is a part of that world. He is not a champion of the working or middle class because he doesn't even know what that is.

I cannot vote for anyone today that has no life experience in the working or middle class. Today's inherited rich are genuine scum, and Newsom is a part of that. There are no Kennedys or Roosevelts among these families.

The rich today are very different. And Democrats would be absolute idiots for choosing some mediocre rich guy as their candidate.  [/quote]

The Democrats need to choose a clear alternative, in affect and in positions. That’s not Newsom.

Newsom has brilliantly shined a light to the double standard Trump enjoys. Newsom’s tweets highlight the sanewashing of Trump’s tweets and other statements and actions. It’s been a huge service to the Democratic brand to stand up to Trump rather than capitulate the way so many do.

But the French Laundry thing crystallizes how Newsom enjoys the “Rules for Thee, Not for Me” level of privilege that so many others in our rigged system enjoy. Trump has made societal favoritism blatant and explicitly transactional. But that means it’s even more important that the Democrats nominate someone who runs on fairness and opportunity while NOT taking advantage of their special status. Someone who attends a luxe birthday dinner at an exclusive French restaurant during Covid when he himself had banned such gatherings, that person can’t be the nominee. It has to be someone who has opportunities to trade on their position or status and does not do so. It has to be someone who pushes for fairness and opportunity for all, while also pushing to ban the privileged from exploiting those special privileges.

That’s the contrast the Democrats must draw, a contrast that will surely cost big-dollar donors and will push ostensibly moderate Cuomo “Democrats” into the MAGA fold. But the public will be craving authenticity in the next Presidential election. That authenticity is critical to overcome all the obstacles the Republicans to throw up as they seek to consolidate their power. The question for me is which Democrat can meet that standard, but it’s certainly not Newsom.[/quote]

The French Laundry thing? LOLOL [/quote]

This comment is a pretty representative sample of the level of democratic discourse. I'm not sure that calling people names, LOLing, and insisting that you're the smartest and richest people in America will be a winning strategy.

In any case, the image of Newsom dining at a Thomas Keller restaurant while the rest of California was locked down and either banned or discouraged from activities basic to modern life, is absolutely going to haunt him if he runs. [/quote]

+1 indeed. That picture will be featured in ads. [/quote]

GMAFB. Trump has destroyed political norms. [/quote]

Ok. Feel free to say it doesn't matter and run Newsom and maybe AOC as candidates. [/quote]

Trump won so I see no reason Newsom can’t. Anything can happen people! [/quote]

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