Earlier this week Senate Democrats voted unanimously to block a Republican bill that would ban trans-women from participating in women’s sports, which has become an 80 – 20 issue (that is, 80 percent of Americans support the ban). Among those furious with Democrats is the very liberal Martina Navratilova, one of the greats among women tennis players.
And someone else is breaking with Democrats on this core identitarian issue: Gavin Newsom. He’s started a new podcast, and his first podcast guest was . . . Charlie Kirk! Politico reports:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said in his debut podcast episode of “This is Gavin Newsom.” “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
Newsom also agreed that the most politically destructive attack ads from Trump’s campaign featured Kamala Harris’ support for providing taxpayer-funded gender transition-related medical care for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.
“She didn’t even react to it, which was even more devastating,” Newsom said, suggesting upward of 90 percent of Americans disagreed with Harris’ position. “Then you had the video [of Harris] as a validator. Brutal,” Newsom added. “It was a great ad.”
[Newsom] distanced himself from the use of pronouns and the gender-neutral term “Latinx,” called police defunding “lunacy,” denounced “cancel culture” and agreed that there had been some internal issues in the leadership of the Black Lives Matter organization.
I’m so old I can remember “the ‘New’ Nixon” before the 1968 campaign. Behold the New Newsom, who is clearly setting up to run for president in 2028. Now let’s see if he breaks with party orthodoxy on energy, regulation, illegal immigration, criminal prosecution, etc. I’m not holding my breath.
