California’s Newsom takes aim: GOP destined for ‘waste bin of history’
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The former San Francisco mayor has spent the better part of the last decade waiting his turn. Now he’s on the attack.
Speaking to POLITICO in his office at the state Capitol, California’s new governor uses superlatives like “magnificent” to describe his achievements in his first six months, basks in the bliss (for now) of leading a Democratic super-majority in Sacramento and wastes no opportunity to score points on the national stage.
“America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” Newsom says, not approvingly. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.”
As any California governor should, Newsom has the “as goes California, so goes the nation” message down pat.
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