The ‘New’ Gavin Newsom Is Every Bit as Oleaginously Shifty as the Old One

Allow me to reprint what remains perhaps my single favorite paragraph ever written for National Review, dating all the way back to those young and innocent days of June 2023:

Gavin Newsom has long offered special interest to a political observer, not just because of his importance as California governor, nor even because of his patent ambition to run for the presidency. (With the exception of Hillary Clinton’s two ill-fated campaigns, no Democratic presidential candidacy in recent memory has ever felt more inevitable or been telegraphed for longer than Newsom’s: At this point, if he fails to run I will be forced to conclude that someone has started connecting his name to Bay Area cold-case bodies, regardless of the official line.)

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Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.

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Allow me to reprint what remains perhaps my single favorite paragraph ever written for National Review, dating all the way back to those young and innocent days of June 2023:

Gavin Newsom has long offered special interest to a political observer, not just because of his importance as California governor, nor even because of his patent ambition to run for the presidency. (With the exception of Hillary Clinton’s two ill-fated campaigns, no Democratic presidential candidacy in recent memory has ever felt more inevitable or been telegraphed for longer than Newsom’s: At this point, if he fails to run I will be forced to conclude that someone has started connecting his name to Bay Area cold-case bodies, regardless of the official line.)

JB

About the Author

Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.