Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to make news by pushing back on the far left of his own party. In a conversation last night with Bill Maher, he said a few things which are likely to rile up the extremists on his own team.
First up, he made the case for talking to people on the other side of the aisle. “These guys are crushing us,” Newsom said. He continued, “The Democratic brand is toxic right now. We had a high water mark two weeks ago, that was a CNN poll at 29% favorability. It’s dropped in an NBC poll down to 27%.”
But the real highlight of this clip comes at the end. “This notion of cancel culture…that’s real and Democrats need to own up to that,” Newsom said. Some people won’t remember but going back to 2014 we spent years arguing this point. There was a cottage industry in the left-wing media of authors downplaying cancel culture and claiming it was…
