Mic. 👏 Fucking. 👏 Drop. 👏
"[Gavin Newsom's recent transphobic podcast] performance was emblematic of the current wave of rightward pandering that establishment Democrats have decided to embrace with vigor after the very same strategy helped them lose the 2024 election. Democrats are positioning themselves as moderate Republicans, abandoning minority communities and vulnerable constituents in service of a fangless politics with a miserable track record of electoral failure.
The idea that hawkish Atlanticism will win over voters en masse is laughable... the Democratic establishment hews its agenda to the gods of ‘“public opinion” — until that public opinion conflicts with lobbyists and the donor class...
So when Democrats speak of shifting their agenda to reach a wider array of voters, what they mean is appealing more to base resentments that the Republicans have so successfully fostered through extensive astroturfing, fearmongering, and misinformation. Democratic leadership could offer a genuine alternative, alleviating the conditions in which revanchism thrives. They would need to present a truly transformative economic platform, taxing the rich, investing in public infrastructure, and supporting the care economy — which represents far more of the U.S. working class than the tiny percentage of manufacturing jobs that receive so much political lip service."
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/07/gavin-newsom-trans-democrats/