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Gavin Newsom tops Kamala Harris in 2028 presidential poll of California Democrats
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That's just it: his policies are how he governs. Awful Neoliberal policies devastating working people to the point that most can barely afford to live is (along with billionaire-owned yellow media) how things got bad enough for a resurgence of fascism.
That being said, the Neoliberal style of campaigning where the vast majority of their messaging is aimed at converting the increasingly tiny sliver of a demographic that have voted GOP and would ever in a million years vote Dem while ignoring the leftmost two thirds of their own base is a losing strategy that lost to the most unqualified and repulsive presidential candidate in living memory if not ever. TWICE.
In conclusion: his policies (and the fact that he's almost as corrupt as your average Republican) would make him an awful president, and the campaign strategy of the DNC that he'd doubtlessly go along with would make him likely to lose to someone even worse.
Policies dont matter in the state your country is in. What matters is preventing fascism.
Seriously you people are so utterly idiotic. You have 0 idea what fascism means if you refuse to prevent it because you dont like the policies of someone who can prevent it. Watch some documentaries about what fascism means. You will never have the opportunity for other elections if you don't support the opponents of fascism.
Policies always matter. Policies are what politicians actually DO, whether fascist, neoliberal, or progressive or whatever.
Saying that policies doesn't matter in politics is like saying food doesn't matter in survival.
Btw, not that it matters, but I'm not American.
Says the guy who just argued that policies are irrelevant to politics 🙄
I know full well what fascism is and means. I sincerely doubt that you do, though, since you don't seem to know what policies are.
Holy ridiculous strawman, Batman! Nobody said anything of the sort
Liberals don't prevent fascism, they enable it. They're the controlled opposition institutionalists who would rather let the people suffer and die than harm their precious institutions and owner donors in any way.
That's how it was in Mussolini's Italy, that's how it is now, and that's how it'll always be.
I have. I have also read a shitload about it. It doesn't sound like you have.
Fixed it for you. Gavin Newsom, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer aren't saving anyone from fascism.
They and people like them not representing the will of the people and rigging primaries to make sure that very few who do can achieve power is as big of a part of why the fascists managed to take over as the fascists themselves are.