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I disagree with your chart, but let's not get into that.
True, but what it will do is keep the good things he's doing now in perspective. Half this very thread is a demonstration of why that's necessary; he's gunning for more influence in the party and a 2028 presidential run and both are capital B, capital T Bad Things. It's not a full solution, but that's neither here nor there.
Any local leftist organization that's actually doing things, when it doubt choose the more militant one. Frankly the time where supporting political candidates was a worthwhile affair is over; from now (or really since January) on it's the people vs authoritarianism and that fight will be won or lost by bodies in the streets. Look into the examples of Euromadian and the Arab Spring for what will be necessary here. Neither were won (for some definition of "won" regarding the latter) by politicians getting votes.
The neoliberals absolutely don't want anything of the sort happening, because then they might have to actually answer to the working class. They'll hold back any such effort in any way, just like they always have, and it's within this context that saying "Newsom is actually pretty bad, y'all" accomplishes something. The neoliberal black hole uses people like Newsom (and, for a less recent example, Obama) to suck all efforts at resistance and redirect them into dead end electoralism. And when I say "dead end electoralism" I don't just mean that the Democrats don't represent the working class; I mean that democracy will have either been saved or destroyed by the midterms, so a conclusion will have already been reached before the ballot box starts to matter.