There is a slick new front man for the Democrat party.  Though nominally the governor of America’s most populous state, he has been running a national campaign for several years now.  (Recall his many attacks on successful across-the-country Florida and rival Governor Ron DeSantis.)


Glib and sounding intelligent while saying little of substance, Gavin Newsom is essentially a taller, whiter, and less cunning version of Barack Obama.

Gavin is not the electoral bantamweight many conservatives claim.  At 6’4” with heavily moussed hair, Gavin will be taller and at least as well coiffed and youthful-looking as his GOP opponent.  (Although it sounds shallow to highlight Gavin’s physiognomy, let’s acknowledge that an electorate shallow enough to elect Obama and Biden is also capable of electing Gavin.)


The entitled blueblood of the Getty and Pelosi dynasties aced finishing school; politically speaking, Gavin knows the difference between the soup spoon and the dessert spoon (both silver, of course).  With Hollywood, Big Tech, and the billionaire class bankrolling his campaign, Gavin will easily pull in more than $2 billion, likely outraising his small-dollar GOP opponent.

Yet Gavin is also as plastic, phony, and vapid as your typical Hollywood starlet.  Nearly androgynous in his effeminacy, he regularly indulges in Shiva-like gesticulations, manic interviews, and deeply disconcerting social media postings while projecting painfully forced empathy.


These attributes are appealing to blue women who instinctively recoil from masculine men like Trump and J.D. Vance.  Blue women are a voting bloc increasingly inclined toward outright misandry, possibly because they resent and despise their own fathers or feel rejected by other strong male figures they have encountered in their lives.  The oleaginous Gavin is the opposite of macho.

Unlike the senile Biden, Gavin won’t fall on his face while debating Vance or Gabbard or whomever the GOP ultimately nominates.  Plus it will obviously be the usual corporate media worms and fangirls asking the debate questions.


To overcome the stigma of being a white male at the top of the (D) ticket, Gavin’s V.P. will definitely be a woman.  Gretchen Whitmer is a good bet and might cement Michigan’s 15 electoral votes.  But Gavin could opt for a black or Hispanic woman to be truly intersectional and appeal to the highest number of grievance groups.

Gavin is a cinch to hold the blue states won by the inept Kamala Harris (226 electoral votes).  If he can then pick off the traditional blue wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — or even just PA and MI while winning back purple Arizona — the White House is his.


Gavin would then nominate an avenging attorney general along the lines of Keith Ellison, Marc Elias, or Andrew Weissmann.  SCOTUS judges might be on the order of the homicidal Jay Jones or James Boasberg.

Downplaying his silver spoon, the hipster Gavin claims to have been a scrappy underdog during his formative years, subsisting on Wonder Bread and mac ’n’ cheese.  (“It was about payin’ the bills, man! That’s how I grew up, bro!”)


Gavin once landed a hottie wife, named Kimberly Guilfoyle.  Later, like countless politicians, Gavin succumbed to extra-testicular activity — not by shagging some random groupie, but rather by bedding the wife of his own campaign manager and close friend, making the adulterous tryst a double-betrayal.

Of course, laws and morals are for Republicans and don’t apply to elites like Gavin and his friends.

Gavin’s current gamine of a wife and potential FLOTUS, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, testified to an affair with Harvey Weinstein, doubtless a painful experience for her.  She divulged the affair only after the #MeToo movement made headlines.

It’s worth noting that Gavin’s high-speed rail to nowhere in California’s central valley has cost $135 billion to date.  We’re not just talking about taxpayer money from daffy Californians micro-dosing on mushrooms and dreaming of unicorns but also working-class red-state voters whose federal taxes disappear into California’s gaping maw.  (Red tax dollars are always financing Democrat projects and underwriting graft and political corruption in blue states.)

Gavin’s predecessor as governor, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, left California with a budget surplus just as Gavin assumed office in 2019.  After squandering Moonbeam’s surplus, Gavin and the Democrat supermajority Legislature in Sacramento now show annual budget shortfalls of at least $20 billion, though realistic estimates are far more dire.

By the end of 2024, Cali had the second highest unemployment rate in the nation at an official 5.5%, along with the highest poverty rate at nearly 20% and the highest homeless rate.  Middle-class outmigration has been joined by flagship businesses like Tesla, Oracle, and Chevron.  (Incidentally, gasoline taxes and fees cost California motorists about $1.40 per gallon.)  Imagine this economic turd show going national.

Tens of millions of dollars have been stolen by government bureaucrats and NGOs supposedly managing the homeless industrial complex as Cali’s homeless population has surged past the (estimated) 200,000 mark.  Feces, open-air drug use, and exploding crime rates due to de-carceration now define San Francisco and Los Angeles as much as the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hollywood sign.

During California’s COVID lockdowns, Gavin acceded to every whim of the teachers’ unions.  Public school teachers refused to return to the classroom, preferring to indoctrinate their students via remote “learning.”  Consequently, urban schools in Cali didn’t reopen until the 2021–22 academic year.  California’s schoolteachers were ecstatic about their 18-month paid vacation, but kids suffered badly.

Additional COVID “relief” resulted in at least $20 billion stolen through identity theft, fraudulent claims, and perhaps the active participation of California’s DIE-obsessed racial bean-counters, the corrupt Employment Development Dept.

Statewide homicides in Cali increased 23% while Gavin was buffing his personal brand during his first year as governor (2019–2020), while smash-and-grab robberies skyrocketed under the Gavin-endorsed Proposition 47.

Gavin’s obligatory demonization of white males is de rigueur throughout Democrat politics.  As part of the racial pander, Gavin promised billions in “reparations” for black California residents, including de facto nationalization of private property to be redistributed along racial lines.

On so-called anthropogenic climate change, under a Newsom presidency, hundreds of billions of tax dollars and subsidies will go to NGOs, businesses, industries, and individuals hyping clean energy as a solution to unsupported claims about imminent climate collapse.  (Think of thousands of self-enriching climate bureaucrats, grant-seeking climatologists, and Solyndras feeding at the taxpayers’ trough as they fly in their private jets.)

All of this and more will go national if Gavin is elected president, and the unreformable monolithic apparatus of government will eagerly revert to its pre-Trump status quo.

Of course, by 2028, Gavin’s personal and political scandals (like his pathetic response to the Palisades Fire) will be mostly forgotten by an electorate that can barely remember what happened last week, let alone three years ago.

A complacent GOP sleepwalking into the next election cycle should heed the words of Saul Alinsky: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

The Telegraph has a story about the ‘Zero Covid’ zealots refusing to re-enter society. Not only that, but these forever maskers want everyone else masked up in perpetuity too. It’s a remarkable instance of the emergence of a new form of cult based on a surreal new ritual. And just for good measure, it seems that those leaning Left are most likely to be on board:

The claims of links to Covid circulating online amid the deadly chaos were not always proved beyond doubt, but in this climate of fear and confusion, a determined ‘Zero Covid’ community emerged. Co-opting a phrase that was originally an official public health policy, the ‘Zero Coviders’ believed they were watching a massacre in real time, and the maskless – especially those who were unvaccinated – were to blame. As governments relaxed the restrictions, they felt they needed to step up.

“I was like, ‘Okay, this is not right. This is f—–,'” says [Alyson] Hardwick, a second-year university student who does not have any underlying health conditions. The last time she ate indoors at a restaurant was in October 2022 for her 31st birthday. “I felt sketched out [uneasy],” she recalls. “I was leaving every place I was going inside without a mask, wondering, ‘Did I get it?’”

Hardwick began wearing a respirator mask – specialised, disposable facepieces called N95s or N99s which offer more comprehensive protection than a surgical mask – and spending most of her time alone.

She’s ostracised herself from other people and posts thousands of clips online and argues that it’s everyone else, not her, who is living in fear. “Denial is a fear response,” she insists.

Hardwick’s stance exemplifies the increasingly fraught Zero Covid movement – a citizen-led campaign across the Western world to keep the air clean. She is just one of thousands of geographically disparate people, many of whom are not immunocompromised, who are still living in their own self-imposed lockdowns, fearful of becoming one of the millions to suffer with serious long Covid symptoms, or anxious about transmitting the virus to someone less fortunate. Zero Covid has adherents across North America and Europe, including some in the UK, but followers from the US and Canada are the most visible online.

The charged movement to end ‘pandemic denialism’ has some high-profile advocates, including Left-wing US journalist Taylor Lorenz. “If ur [sic] not masking ur absolutely facilitating eugenics,” Lorenz posted to her 350,000 followers on X on December 6th.

“Refusing to mask during an ongoing pandemic is absolutely violent and it’s undeniably participating in social murder,” she said in another recent post, as well as calling out Leftist “super spreader” events. “You are actively *killing* and maiming people around you by intentionally spreading airborne disease during an active pandemic.” (Separately, she pilloried non-maskers for “raw-dogging the air and spewing ur disease laden breath all over ur elderly neighbours”.)

By 2022, the pandemic and the panicked measures were retreating into the past:

But the cautious, despite getting vaccinated and then boosted, couldn’t move on. Online communities became lifelines as in-person social circles frayed. Campaigners pushed ‘clean air’ as the next public-health frontier, and offered seatbelt analogies for masking: mildly inconvenient, obviously protective.

Masking was increasingly framed as an act of love, and it was overwhelmingly Left-wing groups which encouraged – even mandated – their continued use. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac encouraged continued mask wearing. “I f—— hate the masks, but I wear them,” she said. “People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, ‘Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks.'”

That would presumably be the same Stevie Nicks who reportedly blew a hole through her nose from snorting cocaine. By 2023 mask use was largely discredited, but the Telegraph quotes a Mayo Clinic source:

“People who rebuilt their entire lives and recast their identities around reducing the risk of catching Covid to zero couldn’t deal with this,” one former ardent Zero Covider recalls, speaking to me on condition of anonymity. “The movement devolved into a massive online circle-jerk where members blindly validate each other on taking disproportionate precautions.

One ardent proponent of masking says that’s the way he’ll spend the rest of his life:

“I don’t just, like, go out the way I used to,” says Evan Sachs, who is in his early 30s and lives in New York with his three cats. He always wears a mask outdoors.

“Sometimes it’s a bummer.” Not because masking is keeping him from living his life, he adds, “but because other people [selfishly] aren’t doing the ‘wearing your pants’ levels of easy things” to keep everyone safe. He runs a ‘bloc’ in the Washington Heights area of New York which distributes personal protective equipment (PPE) to less well-off communities. “I do not have Long Covid, thank goodness,” Sachs adds. “I am very, very lucky on that front.”

He doesn’t want to get it either. “I honestly think I would [mask forever],” he says.’

An Austrian doctor called Spela Salomon has no time for non-maskers:

Outside work, she does not spend time with people who do not take equal precautions. “I just don’t feel like I get anything out of hanging around the maskless masses,” she says. “It’s sad and isolating.” In an article published by the World Health Network earlier this year, Salomon predicted that a rising toll of Covid complications would lead to a societal shift in which air quality is recognised as an essential public health priority like potable water. “It is those who persist in denial who are truly living in fear,” she wrote, echoing Hardwick’s sentiment in her social media video.

It appears that the forever maskers have become so dedicated to the cause that they are even fetishizing masks:

US college student Bela waxes lyrical about her powered air-purifying respirator, certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “It blows air out so that no outside air can get in through the edges from a poor fit or seal,” she told campaign group MaskTogetherAmerica.

Meanwhile, Alyson Hardwick is increasingly focused on her “new passion for Covid”:

Getting a booster jab at least every six months is, for her, a necessary response to what she calls a “mass disability event in slow motion” that has completely transformed her life. “I’m rarely ever sharing air with people,” she says. If she does meet up with anyone, it will be other Covid-safe people, outdoors. “I feel safe around them, because they’re also masking everywhere.”

Worth reading in full if only to explore the infinite capacity of human beings to turn any cause into a cult, however bizarre the rituals and customs devised to pursue their beliefs.