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Monday, August 17, 2026

Trivia question: Which major U.S. political movement is 85% white, supports congressional candidates who oppose interracial dating, is backed by neo-Nazis and ex-KKK leaders, and whose top surrogate said point-blank, “I don’t give a f*** what black people care about.”

It’s not the MAGA movement. We’re 78% white — and our veep, of course, is in an interracial marriage. (Plus, we do give a f*** what black people care about.) In fact, the most pro-Trump ethnicity in 2024 wasn’t even white people — it was Native Americans.

But if you listened to the mainstream media, you’d believe otherwise: MAGA = Hitler.

For 11 long years, the hacks, henchmen, and talking heads at CNN, MS NOW, the New York Times, and (so many) others have gone out of their way to tar-and-feather the MAGA movement — and by extension, the Republican Party — as America’s one-stop shop for racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. They worked overtime to make MAGA synonymous with Nazi:

The Atlantic: The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem
Reuters: American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network Is Riding High in Trump Era
The Guardian: The Trump Administration Has a Nazi Problem
New York Times: If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be
MS NOW: Florida Republicans’ Group Chat Underscores the GOP’s Nazi Problem
Esquire: How Close Are We to the Third Reich?
Rolling Stone: The Republican Party’s Nazi Problem Is Getting Worse
Washington Post: President Trump’s ‘America First’ Slogan Was Popularized by Nazi Sympathizers
Raw Story: Trump Unleashed a ‘Nazi Problem’ — and It Won’t Stop
The Nation: The GOP’s Nazi Problem Has Deep Roots
NY Post: Don Lemon Outrageously Compares MAGA to Nazis in Latest Anti-Trump Rant
The Bulwark: Yes, the GOP Has a Nazi Problem
CNN: Stephen Colbert Compares Donald Trump to a Nazi, Draws Swastika
The Hill: Biden Was Right: MAGA Ideology Is Fascism
The Week: Young Republicans: Does the GOP Have a Nazi Problem?
LA Times: Trump and GOP Repeatedly Echo Nazi and Far-Right Ideology
Mother Jones: The Right’s Decade-Long Nazi Problem
NPR: Multiple Trump Officials Have Links to Antisemitic Extremists

Did you notice how often the phrase “Nazi problem” was included in the headline? That was the media’s go-to description — and if I included every news article that had “Nazi problem” not just in the header, but also in its body, this op-ed would be about a zillion words long. (It was a lot.)

But if MAGA has a “Nazi problem,” what does that say about the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)?

It’s whiter than a polar bear in a snowstorm. By a good margin, it’s the whitest political movement in all of America: A whopping 85% of DSA members are white.

And its views on race relations are simply astonishing.

DSA-endorsed (and Zohran Mamdani-supported) Democrat congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier blasted interracial relationships between minority men and white women, complaining that the fellas were “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.” This earned her the glowing praise of ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. (Hmm…)

Hasan Piker, the DSA’s most prominent media ally, has made his thoughts on black voters perfectly clear (NSFW):

David Duke also praised Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), writing on his website, “By defiance to (Zionist occupied government) Ilhan Omar is NOW the most important Member of the US Congress!”

Neo-Nazi Robert B. Spencer (not to be confused with our Robert Spencer) endorsed Joe Biden in 2020. Spencer wrote in August of 2020, “I plan to vote for Biden and a straight democratic [sic] ticket. It’s not based on ‘accelerationism’ or anything like that; the liberals are clearly more competent people.” He also endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024.

And as for Nick Fuentes, the most famous Hitler-bootlicker currently on social media, well…

Follow-up question: If MAGA has a “Nazi problem,” then why the hell are America’s most influential bigots all backing Democrats?!

It’s the strangest juxtaposition. Despite the media droning on (and on… and on…) about the so-called “Nazi problem” in conservative circles, they were sleeping at the wheel when the DSA became Ground Zero for racism, antisemitism, and Klan-approved dating tips.

Now, remarkably, they’re asleep at the wheel again.

The DSA has a jihad problem. Its movement is lily-white, yet DSA candidates (official and otherwise) are almost all minorities: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Shahana Hanif, Francesca Hong, and Abdul El-Sayed. (I guess Bernie Sanders was grandfathered in.)

Interestingly, out of the nine DSA-affiliated politicians listed, 66% are Muslims.

Is it possible to be a good Muslim and a good American? Of course: There are millions of patriotic Muslims who love the red, white, and blue. Some of them fled from oppressive, brutal regimes — and cherish America’s freedoms and liberties. (My ex-doctor was a wonderful Muslim woman who took phenomenal care of me, although I thought it was kinda weird that I had to get butt-naked in front of her, yet she wouldn’t even uncover her hair.)

But there’s also a percentage of American Muslims who refuse to assimilate, resent Western culture, support terrorism, hate “infidels,” and hope to destroy our system of government.

In hindsight, we should’ve connected the dots much earlier: An alliance between Islamists and the DSA was always inevitable, because:

DSA and Islamists share a desire to neuter U.S. involvement in international politics. The DSA’s platform demands the closing of all U.S. military bases in the Middle East (and elsewhere), the abolishment of the police, the elimination of all border security, extending voting rights to noncitizens, and defunding the Department of War. (Along with eliminating the presidency, the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, and the Senate.)
They share a frothing hatred of Israel, with the DSA platform recognizing the “rights” of Palestinians to “resist military occupation,” the Palestinians’ “right of return” to the rest of Israel, and the Palestinians’ “right” to have Jerusalem as its sole capital. (Plus, prosecuting Israeli and American leaders who were “responsible for the genocide in Gaza.”)

If you’re a jihadist, that’s an awfully appealing platform. What’s not to like?

Why, it’s everything you could’ve asked for!

In a Pew Research survey, 76% of American Muslims reject the targeting and killing of civilians in all situations. That’s good. It’s an overwhelming number.

But on the other hand, 12% believe that terrorism is “sometimes” or “often” justified. And in a nation with 4.5 million Muslims, that’s 540,000 people.

Which might be why some DSA-affiliated candidates seem to have family members with, ahem, jihadist sensibilities.

The DSA is a vehicle for political change. Jihadists want to change the world.

Put two and two together, folks.

For ideological reasons, white leftists are too self-loathing to defend the DSA movement from young, fiery minorities who care more about Mohammad than Marx. As a result, the DSA has become a siren’s call for jihadists — here and abroad.

MAGA doesn’t have a Nazi problem. That was a lie from the very beginning.

But the DSA certainly has a jihad problem.

It’s why over 86,000 people have signed the Change.org petition that asks New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It’s why Hasan Piker — who once said “America deserved 9/11” — has become a top DSA kingmaker. And it’s why Michigan’s Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, is being boosted by the Muslim Brotherhood — the same Muslim Brotherhood that was designated as a “terrorist organization” — as well as a sister who wrote, “I hope the whole world rises against [the] U.S. empire.”

And the media’s silence is deafening.

https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/08/14/enough-with-the-gops-nazi-problem-can-we-please-talk-about-the-dsas-jihad-problem-n4956150?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

The Doomers Can’t Deny Trump’s Big Wins

The Doomers Can’t Deny Trump’s Big Wins

by Kurt Schlichter

No, everything isn’t perfect, and we patriots should keep demanding more and more from the Trump 47 administration. Keep the pressure on. Keep the heat on. Don’t let anyone in Washington think that we’re just ready to settle. But on the other hand, don’t spaz out like a teenage girl whose parents just read her diary about what President Donald Trump has accomplished so far. Yeah, there have been disappointments. Here’s a flash: there are disappointments in life. You can’t always get what you want, but this administration tried really hard, and we might just get what we need.

Let’s review some of the typical complaints from Team All-Is-Lost. The war in Iran hasn’t yet been conclusively won. Millions upon millions of illegal aliens are still in the United States. We’re paying fat slobs to sit on their butts and gobble down Doritos that our welfare dollars pay for. Republicans are weak and soft, and haven’t passed the SAVE Act. Trust-fund communists are taking over the Democrat Party. The economy under Trump 47 hasn’t yet matched the economy under Trump 45. The budget is still out of control. Bureaucrats keep interfering in our agenda. Judges keep getting in the way of progress. Democrats keep getting in the way of progress. Progressives keep getting in the way of progress.

So, we should whine and cry, right? After all, what has Trump accomplished?

A lot. I don’t need a column for that. I need a book.

Let’s look at the border. It’s closed. The argument isn’t over how many thousands of Third World invaders we let in every day. The argument is now about the walls we are actually building — they’re really mad that we’re going to put up barriers in a national park instead of letting thousands of invaders trash it as they traipse through it. We have net-zero immigration right now. More foreigners are leaving than coming in. Think about that. Back in 2024, it was inconceivable that we would be where we are. Yet here we are. The biggest problem America faced has been solved, at least until America is stupid enough to elect a Democrat again. If Trump did nothing else during the last two years, this would be enough to make him a success.

And he’s done a hell of a lot more just on immigration. He unleashed ICE to toss hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens out, and the boot-out rate is increasing. We’re putting the temporary back in “Temporary Protected Status.” We’re banning immigration from many garbage countries and putting limits on H-1B visas. We’ve got the asylum adjudication machine up and moving — no more six years to your hearing date and no more soft-touch judges who grant asylum to anyone with a sob story. ICE is only going to get bigger. The invaders who will only leave the hard way are going to get their wish, and as the administration tightens the rules on giving free stuff to invaders who shouldn’t be here, more of them are going to pick up and leave. We’ve already seen the results. Foreigner job numbers have dropped, but American jobs have risen. Crime is down. Hell, even traffic is better in LA.

Let’s look at the federal government’s pinko feeding trough. We used to have USAID funding transgender mime troupes in Bolivia. We’ve defunded that crap, and a ton of leftist NGOs, as a result. Look at the map. Latin America is turning red because American money isn’t going to fund leftist parties. You could hear about it on NPR, but we’ve stopped giving them government money. Trump didn’t cut everything he wanted to cut, but he cut a lot. Who the hell did that before?

On the economy, yeah, gas prices have gone up because we’ve got to deal with the world as it is. But last month, inflation dropped — again. Take a look at your retirement accounts. They’ve gone up, up, up. Unless you’re a borderline mental defective, you understand that we’re not going to enter into a deflationary cycle. The way we’re going to have to deal with affordability is by growing wages, and that’s going to take time. Sorry, the good-economy wand is broken, but the good economy is still coming. Trump has cut taxes, including the kind that hit working people hardest. If Kamala Harris were here, we’d all be holding our gruel bowls begging “More, please.”

Sure, there’s a giant problem with healthcare. You know healthcare — it was called “Obamacare” until the people who created Obamacare realized how much Obamacare sucked. Do we have a solution yet? No, thanks to weak Republicans who refused to repeal it. But Trump’s doing something hugely important — preventing the single-payer socialized-medicine nightmare. The only people bummed about this are the people who think that medicine should be run by the same people who run the DMV.

How about Iran? I know, Trump promised no more forever wars. Well, Iran is about ending a forever war — one those 7th-century savages declared against us about 50 years ago. Oh no, they fought back. Pathetically, and tactically ineffectively, but yeah, they shot at us. They’ve actually killed a few of us. That’s why it’s called a “war.” But the United States has completely dominated the fight, and only idiots think that the Strait of Hormuz is somehow checkmated because a bunch of Iranians are saying so on X while millions of barrels of oil flow through every day. Yeah, finishing the job is hard, and it’s taking longer than our impatient society wants, but it will remove a huge strategic opponent from the board. Go short on the mullahs, if you’re smart — Trump’s going to finish this, and them.

Oh, and the Trump administration is still hunting down and eliminating scores of other terrorists. We have re-introduced something that has been missing on the part of our enemies for far too long — fear.

Let’s review some other wins. DEI is dead in the whole United States government. Trump’s defunding and banning gender mutilation. The U.S. military is back, not only putting up wins on the scoreboard, but posting record recruiting numbers after getting rid of the curse of DEI. We haven’t got the SAVE Act yet, but we’ve got Trump promulgating orders to curb some of the most blatant mail-in ballot abuses. We’re gutting regulations on everything from guns to mining to drilling and beyond.

Yeah, we’re getting resistance in the courts. Resistance doesn’t mean you’re losing. In this case, it means we’re winning. When some communist judge from the Eastern District of the Soviet Union decides that Trump’s not allowed to be president because of reasons and racism, and the DOJ appeals, the Trump administration wins about 95 percent of the time. Hell, the only time it lost, birthright citizenship, it still came out 5–4, which is closer than anyone with any glancing familiarity with the law ever imagined, and set the stage for new executive orders that will limit birth tourism.

We could go on and on. We could talk about the superstars that Trump’s brought aboard, from JD Vance to Marco Rubio, from Scott Bessent to Pete Hegseth. We could talk about tons of things that are driving the Left crazy, like beautifying Washington, D.C., and cutting crime. The persecuted patriots of J6 have been pardoned, as have the grandmas jailed for praying in abortion clinics. The FBI is no longer trying to frame the Commander-in-Chief and lock up moms who dared to raise their concerns at school board meetings.

We should be talking about these wins. Donald Trump should be talking about them, and when he holds his convention next month, I expect he will. That’s the real story: not the whining about the things we haven’t done yet, but about celebrating the things we have.

That’s why the blackpillers are so annoying. To be a doomer, you have to ignore the great things we have achieved. That’s ridiculous and unreasonable. Now, no one is saying that we can’t complain about mistakes and missteps. It’s saying that you have to understand that every human endeavor, especially something as complex and unwieldy as reversing course on the entire United States government, is going to have its share of mistakes and missteps. Adults understand that, and they don’t wet themselves every time some things don’t go their way.

Newsflash — some things are not going to go your way. Everything isn’t going to be fixed tomorrow. That doesn’t mean don’t complain — you should be complaining because that keeps the pressure on. Complain that we haven’t thrown out enough illegals, complain that we haven’t locked up enough criminals, complain that we haven’t killed enough Third World savages who threaten America. But don’t undermine the morale of our side by dwelling on what hasn’t been done yet to the exclusion of all the many things that Trump 47 has done so far.

Be dissatisfied with Donald Trump if you want. Think that he could be doing more. Again, keep the pressure on. Yeah, there are lots of problems and lots of things to do. Welcome to the world. Here’s another newsflash: everything is never going to get fixed. You’re not going to get to that shining city on the hill until they plant you six feet under.

But understand that life is about choices. We face a stark one. It is the Trump administration, with all its imperfections, versus a potential DSA communist regime that’s going to take your guns, take your liberty, and take your son’s genitals if he looks sideways at a Barbie doll. We had that choice in 2024, and we made the right one. We need to keep making it in 2026 and 2028. We have a long way to go, but dammit, don’t ever think we haven’t come a long way already.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/13/the-doomers-cant-deny-trumps-big-wins-n2681130?utm_source=twdailyamvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

When I First Realized America Is Exceptional

When I First Realized America Is Exceptional

by Dennis Prager

AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

Editor's Note: On August 2, Dennis Prager turned 78. Throughout the rest of the month, to celebrate his birthday and honor his work and legacy, Townhall is republishing several of Dennis' columns that speak to current political and cultural debates. We hope you enjoy reading Dennis' timeless words.

The following column was originally published on October 16, 2018.

I moved to California from New York City in 1976. The founder of what was then America's largest Jewish retreat center, the Brandeis Institute (not affiliated with the university), Dr. Shlomo Bardin, asked me to work as his assistant. He was 75 years old; I was 25. One weekend the next year, he announced to the membership he wanted me to succeed him. To everyone's shock, he died that very week. It was then renamed the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

The institute was located in Simi Valley, California, then more a small town than even a small city. It had all of two restaurants. I lived there for three years and joined the Simi Valley Rotary Club.

To the best of my memory, I was the only Jew in that Rotary chapter. What struck me was that my being a Jew meant essentially nothing to the other members. No one cared. Not even a little.

If you are an American, my reaction makes little sense. You are wondering why it struck me that my being a Jew meant nothing to the entire membership.

The reason was I knew Jewish history. Prior to moving to California, I taught Jewish history at Brooklyn College. Nowhere in the Jews' 3,000 years as a people living in non-Jewish societies did being a Jew ever mean nothing to the non-Jews among whom they lived.

Even in 1976.

The Jews of France were known as Jews, as were the Jews of England, Brazil and everywhere else. If I were in a Rotary Club in a small French city, especially if I were the only Jew in the club, the other members would know me as "Denis le Juif," Dennis the Jew. That did not mean the other members were antisemites, only that in Europe, as everywhere else, if you weren't a member of the majority group, you were known as a person with that other identity.

If you were to mention to any of the members of the Simi Valley Rotary Club in 1976 that this guy Prager was a Jew, their reaction would likely have been "So what?"

And it wasn't as if my identity was hidden. On the contrary, the reason I was admitted to the club was that I was the head of something — a Jewish educational center. And for the record, that would have been the Rotarians' reaction if I were an Arab, a Latino, or a black.

Only in America.

To this day, a German whose grandparents immigrated to Germany from Turkey is likely to be regarded as a Turk, even if he speaks no Turkish and speaks German exactly as other Germans do. And this monumental difference goes in both directions. This third-generation Turk in Germany is not likely to regard himself as a German.

But a Turk who immigrates to America is regarded as American the moment he becomes an American citizen (if not sooner) — even if he has a Turkish name and speaks halting, accented English. If he wants to identify as American, he's an American.

Only in America.

Only in America have people of every background come to be regarded as fully members of the majority group. The parents of the present U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, are Sikhs who immigrated to America from India. Few Americans know this, and those who know don't care. As far as most of us are concerned, Nikki Haley might as well be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Of course, Americans did not always live up to American ideals — their attitudes toward black Americans being the most obvious example. But America evolved into the least racist and least xenophobic society in human history — the society that most successfully assimilates others as full members.

Today, however, there are two threats to this exceptional American achievement.

One threat comes from the Left, which does not want minorities or immigrants to assimilate but to retain their minority or immigrant identity as their primary identity. If a black American says, "I am an American who happens to be black," he is vilified by the black and white Left as a "traitor to his race" and an "Uncle Tom." The Left regards efforts to assimilate all Americans into one American identity — such as declaring (not even legislating) English as the official language of the United States — as a form of "white supremacy."

The other threat comes from those immigrants who do not come to America to become American but to use America for its financial, medical, and educational benefits while remaining attached to their own culture.

When politicians and commentators on the Left analyze the 2016 presidential election, they invariably ascribe the Trump vote to lower-class angry whites. But this upper-middle-class Jew voted for President Trump (and would have voted for any Republican) not out of anger but out of love — for the exceptional country he fell in love with at the Simi Valley Rotary in 1976.

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2026/08/15/when-i-first-realized-america-is-exceptional-n2681302?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-KxKYTEnjgE&utm_term=&_nlid=KxKYTEnjgE&_nhids=ncdGxHqeFPEzls

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Trump Celebrates ’BIG WIN’ in Tariff Exemption Case

Trump Celebrates ’BIG WIN’ in Tariff Exemption Case

Catherine Salgado

President Donald Trump is thrilled about a court win for his administration, one addressing a controversial tariff exemption.

Ebullient and triumphant, Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday, “BIG WIN today at the U.S. Court of International Trade on one of the most DESPICABLE loopholes in American Trade Policy — The so-called ‘de minimis’ exemption.” After decades of other countries imposing outrageous tariffs on our goods while facing no reciprocal tariffs from us, the Trump administration is trying to even the playing field, but has run into constant challenges from woke politicians and judges. That is another reason this win is important. And the latest court victory will also strike a blow at illegal drug traffickers.

The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled in Trump’s favor, bolstering the administration’s ongoing tariff war.

Trump explained why this particular exemption has galled him. “For years, Foreign Shippers could send packages worth up to $800 into our Country, DUTY FREE, NO TARIFF, far less scrutiny. It became a giant loophole for TARIFF Cheats — and a Pipeline exploited by Fentanyl Traffickers, Counterfeiters, and other Criminals shipping dangerous and illegal products into America. The numbers were staggering.”

In order to illustrate clearly just what he meant, the president continued, “In 2024 alone, de minimis cost America an estimated 10.8 BILLION DOLLRS in foregone TARIFF Revenue, and an astonishing share of narcotics and counterfeit seizures came through the de minimis channel. So, we CLOSED IT. With the stroke of my mighty pen — NO AUTOPEN!!! — we ended this ridiculous giveaway, and made Foreign Goods play by the rules.”

But when people have been getting away with exploiting a loophole for years, they are not likely to accept a change docilely. That, of course, is what inevitably happened in this case. Trump acknowledged, “The Importers sued. Today, THEY LOST. The Court ruled that the President had the Legal Authority to rescind this so-called ‘privilege.’”

In his usual grandiose style, Trump is already predicting many beneficial effects from the ruling, not just for his administration, but for millions of American workers. “America is now SAFER, our Workers are better protected, and BILLIONS in TARIFF Revenue that used to slip through this loophole can instead help pay for our Great Military, Tax Relief, NO TAX ON TIPS, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY. AMERICA FIRST TRADE — AND AMERICA FIRST LAW ENFORCEMENT!” he exclaimed.

The number one issue in the 2024 election was the economy, and going into the midterm election, it is particularly important that the Trump administration prioritizes protecting American jobs and bringing more jobs back to the USA from foreign countries that have used cheap labor and fewer safety regulations to lure industry away.

Hopefully the exemption ruling will also help save lives by truly closing loopholes that drug traffickers use. With the endless, exhausting, and expensive lawfare always consuming so much time and taxpayer money from the Trump administration, it’s always encouraging to see a sensible decision.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/08/13/trump-celebrates-big-win-in-tariff-exemption-case-n4956112?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

The Dems' Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan

The Dems' Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan

Stephen Green

Pity poor Gavin Newsom, whose national ambitions — thankfully for those of us who don't live in California — appear permanently stymied by his conspicuous corruption and incompetence. The latest evidence comes from Michigan, where the would-be Democrat presidential contender was just humiliated in the state's deepest indigo of blue enclaves.

Calling it Newsom's "swing (and miss) state tour," Politico reported on Wednesday that his "buzzy X posts and vertical videos" from Michigan "this week suggest a slam dunk trip to an early nominating state."

But even though Newsom's social media feed racked up "a million views of a 65-hour tour," Politico noted that "the posts may also be the latest sign that social media is not real life."

Translation: It was a trip notable mostly for bad execution and embarrassing turnout.

Rep. Debbie Dingell, "the Downriver doyenne largely responsible for nearly securing Michigan’s status as the fifth 2028 nominating state," told the magazine, "I didn’t hear from the governor. I didn’t expect to: I’m a car girl." That's likely in reference to Newsom's 2035 mandate banning new ICE vehicle sales in California.

Newsom snubbed Virgie Rollins, whom Politico described as "the influential chair for the DNC’s Black Caucus."

There's more:

Some Michigander politicos pointed out that Newsom canceled a fundraiser with state AG nominee Eli Savit that included the controversial host Kelly Neumann, according to an invite obtained by POLITICO and circulated to some Democrats who didn’t realize the event was canceled when Newsom’s team was made aware of Neumann’s background.
Newsom initially planned two competing fundraisers in Ann Arbor on Sunday, one for Savit and one for the state House Democrats. When the latter found out about the Savit fundraiser they pulled out, citing a small Ann Arbor donor base.

Saying Ann Arbor has a small Democrat donor base is like saying you couldn't spot any tech bros in Palo Alto.

“He had a lot of good meetings,” Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel told Politico, adding Newsom was a big hit at a local barbecue.

I believe this was the barbecue:

Yikes, how the mighty have fallen.

Then again, "Newsom huddled for nearly an hour with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed," if you want to know the governor's current priorities.

Politico argued that "it’s also true that some of the hard feelings may underscore just how much Newsom is in demand," but I'm not sure I see it.

I wouldn't be too surprised if Newsom 2028 ended up following a similar path to Kamala Harris 2020. It makes me smile every time I remember that the Dems' Queen of Summer 2019 ended up dropping out of the race in December, weeks before the Iowa caucuses — her polls cratering almost as quickly as her coffers.

It's no coincidence that they're both from California. As my partner in thoughtcrime, Stephen Kruiser, and I have discussed several times over the years, the Golden State is maybe the nation's worst breeding ground for Democrats with presidential ambitions.

Once a Dem woos the right money people — particularly Nancy Pelosi, but she's now fading — they never really have to compete. Or even learn how to compete. Taking a Democrat like Harris or Newsom out of California is like taking the Boy in the Bubble out of confinement and directly into Wuhan Institute of Virology on a particularly leaky day.

Besides, as conservative Hollywood scribe George MF Washington put it on X this morning, "The energy of his party is done with straight white men."

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Newsom has learned the lessons Harris never did. Maybe he really is the Democrats' Great White Hope. But I didn't see much evidence of that in Michigan.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/08/13/the-dems-great-white-hope-just-got-humiliated-in-michigan-n4956101?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm