Newsom Looks Small in the Face of a Big War

The front-runner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination seems congenitally incapable of rising above his tribe. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
He’s quick to blame Israel and Trump at every turn, but spares few harsh words for the mullahs who want Americans dead.
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It was unsettling to watch California governor Gavin Newsom on Monday spouting off a rejiggered blood libel this week, and not simply because Democrats have mostly succumbed to a fashionable Jew hate.
“We have to reconcile why our bombs were used, or Israeli bombs were used, to kill children—young girls—at a school, and what the imminent threat was,” Newsom said at a press conference meant to slam Donald Trump’s war on Iran.
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