In a battle between two Californians considering Democratic runs for president in 2028, Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a slight edge over former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new poll.
The poll, conducted by Politico and The Citrin Center public opinion firm, found Newsom is the top choice of 25% of California’s Democratic voters in the 2028 Democratic primary, leading all prospective candidates including Harris, the 2024 Democratic nominee, who is supported by 19% of the state’s Democrats.
The two high-profile Californians are followed in the poll by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (13%), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (10%), Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (4%) and New Jersey U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (4%).
Great, so you are another fascist enabler. You dont need to like his policies but if he is the person to stop the fascist and you dont support him or even vote for him you are on the side of the fascists.
That’s just it: his policies are how he governs. Awful Neoliberal policies devastating working people to the point that most can barely afford to live is (along with billionaire-owned yellow media) how things got bad enough for a resurgence of fascism.
That being said, the Neoliberal style of campaigning where the vast majority of their messaging is aimed at converting the increasingly tiny sliver of a demographic that have voted GOP and would ever in a million years vote Dem while ignoring the leftmost two thirds of their own base is a losing strategy that lost to the most unqualified and repulsive presidential candidate in living memory if not ever. TWICE.
In conclusion: his policies (and the fact that he’s almost as corrupt as your average Republican) would make him an awful president, and the campaign strategy of the DNC that he’d doubtlessly go along with would make him likely to lose to someone even worse.
Policies dont matter in the state your country is in. What matters is preventing fascism.
Seriously you people are so utterly idiotic. You have 0 idea what fascism means if you refuse to prevent it because you dont like the policies of someone who can prevent it. Watch some documentaries about what fascism means. You will never have the opportunity for other elections if you don’t support the opponents of fascism.
Policies always matter. Policies are what politicians actually DO, whether fascist, neoliberal, or progressive or whatever.
Saying that policies doesn’t matter in politics is like saying food doesn’t matter in survival.
Btw, not that it matters, but I’m not American.
Says the guy who just argued that policies are irrelevant to politics 🙄
I know full well what fascism is and means. I sincerely doubt that you do, though, since you don’t seem to know what policies are.
Holy ridiculous strawman, Batman! Nobody said anything of the sort
Liberals don’t prevent fascism, they enable it. They’re the controlled opposition institutionalists who would rather let the people suffer and die than harm their precious institutions and owner donors in any way.
That’s how it was in Mussolini’s Italy, that’s how it is now, and that’s how it’ll always be.
I have. I have also read a shitload about it. It doesn’t sound like you have.
Fixed it for you. Gavin Newsom, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer aren’t saving anyone from fascism.
They and people like them not representing the will of the people and rigging primaries to make sure that very few who do can achieve power is as big of a part of why the fascists managed to take over as the fascists themselves are.
Newsome is the person that will let facists win again
You people are those who let fascists win again if there is another election and you dont vote for the candidate running against the fascists.
Luckily you will deeply regret it once the fascists grab their power tightly enough and no one will shed a tear for you, because it will be your own fault
I am not even american lol. It sadden me that you guys suffer for voting for the two cults and refuse to ackwowledge your cult mistakes
Supporting the Democrats is supporting fascist enablers. Well they had power. They gave up two supreme Court pics. They were more than happy to rally behind a false immigration debate, they avoided the prosecution of actual criminals. Just assuming that they would go away, they failed to codify roe v. Wade in law. The Democrats have basically for the last 50 years done. Almost nothing short of handover power and make a really crappy healthcare system. Slightly less crappy temporarily.
We’re here now because they didn’t have the backbone to fight fascists.
You are there now because of people like you not voting for the single party that could have stopped the fascists. You have a 2 party system. If you donr vote democrat you vote fascist.
You can work on fixing the democraty party once your little bit of democracy left is not on the line anymore.
What if the Democrats are also Fascists, just not open about it?
If I don’t like his policies because he agrees with fascists more than he should, why should I vote for him?
Because you then help the actual fascists win. You only have 2 optiond. One fascist and one non fascist. You vote for the non fascist no matter what you think of his policies.
With people like you you will never have another opportunity to vote in someone who can establish the policies you like.
God you people are as stupid as Trump supporters. “I dont like his policies so lets just let the guy who wants to destroy the little bit of democracy we have win”
Newsom is fascist, how you gonna call someone a fascism enabler when they oppose a fascist??
Newsom is not a fascist. Trump is a fascist. Newsom fullfills some of the 14 traits of fascism, which is not good but does not endanger democracy. Trump fulfills all of them.
You help the actual fascists stay in power and prevent any chance of having a better candidate in the future. By not voting for the candidate that can prevent fascism you help the fascists.
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I honestly can’t believe they haven’t learned the consequences of doing nothing when the bare minimum would have saved so many people.
I am left to believe that trump’s bot campaign is back in full force because frankly, I cannot believe someone can be this willfully ignorant.
Its the voters fault that the candidates are shit…
The voters cant influence the candidates in the end. The voters can inffluence who wins. The voters and non voters chose fascism.
Every single non voter is just as bad as the worst magahat.
The important thing here is that you’re right and should continue preaching the same message because it worked so well the last time. And changing tactics wouldn’t be a sign of learning something or not being lazy.
I’m left to wonder if you’re saying the same thing to all the edgy communists who are promising they won’t vote for Newsom if he wins the bid.
You know. Because it’s just a repeat of the same thing they did last time and all.
I tell them to not expect worsening conditions to teach liberals the right lesson and they should vote as if they’re choosing a boss fight. In that context fascist-light is the correct choice.
Yeah. I checked. Your comment history tells a different story. And for the record, the only thing a far-leftist can teach anyone is that by example-
doing nothing, does nothing.
My brother in Christ: https://awful.systems/comment/8412622
A comment-less meme that you didn’t even post is your example against my argument?
Yeah. I think they’re just young idealists, trying to signal their values on social media.
I don’t think Lemmy is much of a target for bots but I feel like we get the back scatter - actual users parroting the narrative they picked up elsewhere.
Everyone you disagree with is a bot, even when they have articulated thoughts.
That’s a pretty bold accusation. Do you care to back that up with evidence?
Everyone
Are you insinuating that you represent all people in this case? Or are you willing to accept that fact that I made this accusation based on a finite number of people that fit the description?
Well lemme know when someone calls out a fascist platforming transphobe who hates the poor, and you don’t think they’re a Trump supporter.
Entirely irrelevant to the discussion, but whatever makes you feel part of it. And speaking of, I’m going to end it here.
Have the day you voted for.