Ellie Garday Holmes is out with a new book on California’s coiffed governor. To read Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, according to Bruce Bawer,
is to find one’s contempt for this hideous creature skyrocketing. If he has any redeeming qualities, any special gifts, any attributes that might illuminate an admirable and recognizably human side, there’s no sign of them here. This is a man who, despite having no discernible talent for governance or anything else, was lucky enough to be born into one well-off family – his great-grandfather co-founded the Bank of Italy, which later became the Bank of America – and to be, from earliest childhood, a sort of honorary member of an even richer family, the Gettys, his father being best friends with oil magnate Gordon Getty, who was like a second father to young Gavin.
In short, as this book vividly and quite unsettlingly demonstrates, Gavin Newsom makes even the unsavory likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama look like rank amateurs when it comes to sheer egotism, megalomania, and vaingloriousness. Every American who cares about the fate of his country should pray that this oily narcissist’s dreams of national power never come to fruition.
And so on, in considerable detail. Like Joe Biden, with whom he has much in common, Newsom defies satire. According to comedian Adam Carolla, now on his way out of California, Gavin Newsom is a “narcissistic douchebag” and “slippery eel of nothingness,” but there’s more to the governor. “He’s a narcissistic 10-cent head buffoon and nobody knows it.” Newsom Unleashed will surely help, and the governor’s lust for unbridled power is on full display.
Newsom recently teamed with recurring governor Jerry Brown to remove the Taxpayer Protection Act from the November ballot. For this pair, the people should always be taxed as much as possible, have no say in tax or regulatory policy, and always be ruled by people like themselves.
