That’s probably just a troll but you never know. I’m not sure I wouldn’t buy it…
TPM Weekender writes:
Newsom is making it clearer by the second that he is likely to launch a 2028 bid, as evidenced by his justifiably aggressive response to Trump’s nationwide gerrymandering bid to rig the midterms and the new online persona he’s rolled out to publicize his plans.
Some of it is cringe, like the all caps Trump Truth style tweets where Newsom — “YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR” — copied Trump’s voice in announcing his plans to redraw some congressional maps in California. Some of it is effective (Trump and his toadies make it easy). Some of it will get under Trump’s skin in a way that little else can: he’s stealing Trump’s grift. On Friday Newsom tweeted an image of new merchandise he supposedly intends to sell (more than likely its just another layer of his ongoing troll).
In some sense, whatever, go off. In another sense, beyond all the silly attention-grabbing pranks, Newsom is taking concrete steps to counter this White House. In moving quickly to redraw California’s maps and push back against Republicans’ redistricting power grab, he’s doing something that Democrats have struggled to do in fighting Trump for the past decade. He’s abandoning the higher ground and joining the no-holds-barred fight to stop Trump’s midterms ratfuckery.
This is the key. Get attention, yes. (Read Chris Hayes’ new book for how important that is.) But also — DO BIG THINGS! That is the key. Think FDR.
When Joe Biden took over a lot of Democrats assumed that people were yearning to go back to the day when you don’t have to think about politics all the time. So they kept it low key. Big mistake. We are now addicted to the stimulation (whether we like it or not) and out media environment makes it impossible to escape anyway unless you go off the grid. So you have to compete for attention and be willing to take risks and be aggressive. Trump is the master at this game, of course. He pretty much invented it.
But he and his people are very stupid and they are drowning in Trump’s mental illness. The Democrats have an advantage there. If they can show they’re able to fight fire with fire in both the politics and the policy they can save the country.