California’s governor is being touted as a successor to the Biden throne. Though he’s often imagined as a beacon of progress, his feckless record shows otherwise.

  •  t3rmit3   ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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    Newsom regularly shoots down progressive bills. The fact that anyone thinks he’s a progressive just shows how far skewed to the right our political spectrum is; anyone who doesn’t signal dislike for LGBT+ people and/or women is automatically viewed as “progressive”.

    The thing he gets most of the “progressive” points for is his gun control support, but he’s also pro-cop and gives cops exemptions from almost all gun control laws, so it’s not really gun control, it’s just disarmament of the workers.