Friendly reminder that Dianne Feinstein raised the Confederate Flag over the San Fransisco court house as mayor and still got elected statewide. Also might be good to remember that California's Prop 8 stripped the LGBTQ population of marriage rights the same year Obama won the Presidency. And that was in the Woke Era. Now you've got Illinios and New York liberals going full Cop Mode while Florida and Texas straight up want to start a shooting war with their southern neighbors.
Newsom is an absolute reptile, but he's got his tongue in the wind and knows what liberals are going to be looking for in four years. He's positioning himself as Fash-Lite, because that's the kind of candidate the Democratic Party is interested in running.