Gavin Newsom is a shrewd, fleet-of-mind, left-moderate governor with mostly good deeds on his record (along with a few not-so-good calls…nobody’s perfect). Yes, a bit slippery but he’s primarily a sensible, pragmatic fellow (“good on his feet,” Shapiro admits) who genuinely believes in democracy and playing the game more or less honorably, and certainly much more honorably than The Beast. He’s really “wrong”, I believe, in terms of trans kids and school involvement in potential trans-kid scenarios, but otherwise he did pretty well with Ben Shapiro earlier today.