Newsom Does Houston and Proves Democrats Still Don’t Get It

Less than one year ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom admitted that he was trying to figure out why Democrats lost so badly in the November 2024 election.

His faux introspection lasted about 10 minutes.

Newsom is termed out, but with his hunger for the U.S. presidency he will say and do anything for the headlines from the compliant media he believes will help deliver him the White House. The damage inflicted on California is of no concern to him as long as he achieves what he believes is rightfully his.

Newsom’s “Trump-proofing” California stunt lasted a little longer, as his unconstitutional Proposition 50 redistricting scheme proved.

It also proved that Newsom, who already has a shaky relationship with the truth, will break every rule or law to get what he wants. For Gavin, as with every good little leftist, the ends justify the means. Or if the outcome of an action is beneficial or desirable, then any method, including unethical or immoral actions, used to achieve it can be considered acceptable.

As “Native Texans” noted on X, “California Governor Gavin Newsom, has abandoned his state in order to hold rallies in other states as he prepares for a potential run for President in 2028. He was in Houston, Texas this weekend speaking to a small crowd in Harris County. He was welcomed onto the stage by Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) out of Dallas. Governor Newsom went on to call President Trump an ‘invasive species’ during his short speech on stage.”

The Los Angeles Times apparently agrees. They are now recommending that Newsom “take inspiration from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who not only pulled America through the Depression, but rebuilt trust in democracy with a truly big-tent government that offered concrete benefits to a wide and diverse swath of society.”

Because why? As LAT columnist Anita Chabria says, “It’s time to once again embrace the values — inclusiveness, equity, dignity for all — that too many Democrats have expeditiously dropped to appease MAGA.”

Is she suggesting that Gavin Newsom embrace Roosevelt’s New Deal? Expand Social Security? Create another WPA Works Progress Administration, a New Deal government jobs program created by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression?

Chabria says:

“The similarities between Roosevelt’s day and now aren’t perfect, but they share a shoe size. FDR took office in 1933, when the Great Depression was in full swing. Then, like now, right-wing authoritarianism was cuddled up with the oligarchs. Income inequality was undeniable (and worse, unemployment was around 25%) and daily life was just plain hard.”

Chabria cites the New Republic on “right-wing authoritarianism.”

Like then, the public today is desperate for security, and unselfish, service leadership — not that of “economic royalists,” as FDR described them. He warned then, in words sadly timeless, that “new kingdoms” were being “built upon concentration of control over material things.”

If the public today “is desperate for security, and unselfish, service leadership,” she’s looking at the wrong man. Unselfish service leadership? Gavin Newsom is the epitome of the selfish, self-absorbed, self-promoting, self-adoring narcissist leftist.

The people who want unselfish, public service leadership are the very voting public that Gavin Newsom and Democrat elites find so odious.

FDR’s New Deal wasn’t the success that many claim it was. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and close friend to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the primary architect of FDR’s New Deal, admitted seven years later, “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Historian Burton Folsom, the author of “New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America,” said Morgenthau made this “startling confession” during the seventh year of the New Deal.

“Roosevelt created jobs paid for by government; he created Social Security; he created a coalition that improbably managed to include both Black Americans everywhere and white Southerners, northern industrialists and rural farmers. In the end, he created a United States where people could try, fail and have the helping hand to get back up again — the real underpinning of the American dream.”

Newsom Does Texas

While in Texas over the weekend, Newsom chided Texas Governor Greg Abbott about removing mask mandates during Covid, and opening Texas up early.

Really? Newsom is going there after locking all of California down for three years, ordering business closures, shutting schools down, mandating face masking, vaccinations and social distancing, all of which were known at the time to be ineffective against the covid flu. Newsom needs to own the long-term economic, social and emotions devastation he inflicted on 40 million Californians.

California Governor, Gavin Newsom, has abandoned his state in order to hold rallies in other states as he prepares for a potential run for President in 2028.

He was in Houston, Texas this weekend speaking to a small crowd in Harris County. He was welcomed onto the stage by Rep.… pic.twitter.com/ck80MMTZ9S

— Native Texans (@native_texans) November 9, 2025

“We can shape the future here in Texas,” Newsom said on Saturday at a union hall in Houston packed with cheering Democrats, the New York Times reported. “We can shape the future here all across the South and across the United States of America. You have that power. You do. Not Donald Trump.”

Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris and the Biden administration, he thrashed them. Democrats have been humiliated.

Yet Newsom is not humbled and self-effacing.

Lacking the ability for self-reflection, we warned that they will lash out, and they are as we have witnessed the first 10 months into the Trump Presidency.

As Rep. Kevin Kiley notes, Newsom has averaged about a -1 approval rating in California during his second term, which is 21 points below the state’s partisan baseline. That’s quite a bit worse than Trump or Biden’s national numbers ever got.

Newsom has averaged about a -1 approval rating in California during his second term, which is 21 points below the state's partisan baseline. That's quite a bit worse than Trump or Biden's national numbers ever got. pic.twitter.com/2tYhUMPHUq

— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) November 9, 2025

Evidence of a lack of humility and self-awareness, Chabria says, “Despite the relentless focus on cost of living, there is also hunger for a return to fairness.”

Fairness? I hope she isn’t referring to the unlawful use of government to take Donald Trump down and even take him out, Americans have witnessed since 2015.

Chabria said, “America needs to pay the bills and affordability is fairly the top concern for many. Voters want a concrete plan for personal financial stability — like FDR offered with the New Deal — grounded in tangible benefits such as healthcare, housing, jobs and affordable Thanksgiving turkeys that do not require lining up at a food bank.”

As we reported last week:

Newsom claims: “People are starting to realize that not only is their coffee more expensive, their beef is more expensive, but the cost of an automobile is more expensive, since he became president, the cost of utilities.”

Bidenomics led to Biden-flation: Coffee, beef, cars and utilities more expensive? Welcome to Biden-flation. It will take perhaps 2-3 years to actually overcome the Biden economy.

Even The Hill knows this. In 2024 The Hill reported, “Biden owns inflation: He bought it with massive spending and Americans are paying for it economically. Now, Biden’s afraid he will have to pay for it politically.”

“Inflation has been far worse during the Biden administration, up 20.1% over the first 45 months of Biden’s term compared to 7.1% during Trump’s first 45 months, according to the government’s consumer price index,” Forbes reported. “That equates to annualized inflation rates of 5.4% under Biden and 1.9% under Trump.”

Gavin Newsom thinks he can out-Trump Donald Trump. He thinks his noxious X/Twitter posts make him look like a badass. He thinks poking at Trump and the Trump administration elevates his stature.

As Rep. Kiley reminds everyone, “We overturned Newsom’s gas-car ban. We cut off his high-speed rail funding. We reversed his reckless crime policies. We beat his hand-picked candidate last year. And we’ll beat his extreme gerrymander next year.”

The other 49 states don’t want anything to do with California.

Democrat men are attempting to appear more masculine, Sasha Stone accurately says. “Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker have no problem fomenting insurrection against the government, and the newly elected Mayor of New York just taunted Trump to ‘turn up the volume.’”

“To them, all is justified in the name of ‘saving democracy.’ But that’s never been what any of this has been about. They are totalitarians at heart.”

And Gavin Newsom is worse – he’s a designer empty suit.