Who said he's a great leader?
He has some support from liberals and might be a strong candidate for president eventually, but progressives are his fiercest critics.
He has made many promises to satisfy progressives but all the work he's done to honor those promises has been purely performative. This is incredibly typical of the Democrats who aren't nearly as radical as Republicans are required to pretend in order to gin up votes.
His stern warning to Walgreens regarding abortion medication also felt performative but if it was sincere then it was fascist or authoritarian.
His hypocrisy about gatherings during the pandemic was a catastrophic failure of leadership at a time when the stakes were incredibly high. John Smith down the block ignoring the mandates is a minor issue, the governor of a state doing so is unforgiveable.
Would he have support if he runs? Of course he will, every time a Republican wins the White House it drags the country back twenty years (in Trump's case it was fifty), but he's almost as uninspiring a candidate as Biden, who progressives loathe.
As long as it's a Democrat I'd take Bill the Cat over Newsom.
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