For several years, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has been spending his time engaged in a bizarre shadow-boxing campaign against various right-wing boogeymen who, in the depths of his imagination, represent obstacles along his path to the White House. Whether it’s having to stare down the infamous poop map during his debate with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), his horrendously awkward foray into the world of podcasting, or his entirely manufactured descent into online trash-talking, there is no level of humiliation that will stand in Newsom’s way of destroying the country after destroying San Francisco and then California.
The strangest part of Newsom’s strategy is his desire to be like President Donald Trump, including his obsessive compulsion to post on social media like a deranged teenage girl with nothing to lose. One of many problems with this strategy is that trying to be like Trump is essentially a political Ring of Power that can only be wielded by its one creator, dooming all those who seek to wield it to lives of embarrassment.
