Newsom’s Calculated Embrace Of Mamdani’s Socialist Rise
My latest column in the California Post examines what is behind Newsom’s new progressive push… If you are surprised, you haven’t been watching him closely…
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Gavin’s Disingenuous DSA Embrace
My latest California Post column examines Gavin Newsom’s newest economic agenda and asks a simple question: is California’s governor leading the Democratic Party’s leftward shift — or racing to catch up with it?
Newsom’s latest proposals include a federal billionaires tax, sweeping changes to inheritance law, and even a national public equity fund tied to artificial intelligence profits.
Newsom can dress this up as fairness, but the policy direction is obvious: more taxation, more redistribution, and more government control over the economy.
And the politics behind the proposal may be even more revealing than the policy itself.
For years, Newsom has built his national identity around being the Democratic Party’s most aggressive anti-Trump warrior. But politics evolves quickly, and the energy inside the Democratic Party is increasingly coming from activist organizations, democratic socialists, and deep-blue urban voters who believe capitalism itself needs to be redesigned.
The rise of Zohran Mamdani in New York may prove to be more than a local political story. It may be a preview of where Democratic politics is headed nationally.
In my full California Post column, I examine why Newsom may believe the road to the Democratic presidential nomination now runs through the activist left — and why his latest policy rollout looks less like conviction and more like adaptation.
I also revisit an earlier Gavin Newsom — one many California Republicans and business leaders remember very differently.
The broader question extends beyond one governor or one election cycle.
Has Gavin Newsom concluded that the path to the White House requires embracing the politics of redistribution, class warfare, and democratic socialism?
Or has he simply decided that if the Democratic Party is heading in that direction, he intends to arrive first?
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