Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

I’d like to talk about this recall election and @GavinNewsom. No Governor of California has ever faced the magnitude of multiple crisis that Newsom has faced. From Covid to apocalyptic fires he has led the nations largest state with dignity, empathy and competence. He has been

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tested and has met the moment. The candidates running in the recall to replace him are a specific type of Olympian, competitors in a farce of self interest, masturbatory self indulgence, fame seeking and political extremism. Each of them is manifestly unfit to hold any type of

public responsibility and since we watched Trump kill hundreds of thousands of people through neglect, stupidity, selfishness, insanity and incompetence it seems worth mentioning that all of this is being funded and driven by Trump loving political extremists who hate California

Here is the main point in all of this. 48 hours ago a small Canadian town named Lytton was consumed by flames after the temperature hit 120 degrees. Hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes followed the fire storm in a display of weather violence that is both apocalyptic and

novel to the Scientists who measure such things. California will burn through this summer and fall. @GavinNewsom will be tested yet again and we know that he will measure up again. The people seeking to replace him couldn’t collectively operate a Keurig, let alone manage the

chaos and disaster that lie sadly and predictably ahead. At an hour of great crisis it is always best to try and keep the stupid at a low boil. That’s the problem with the recall, it’s stupidity, venality and malice are occurring at a moment of maximum danger in a State with

38 million human souls. California has faced worse than this recall but I doubt it’s ever seen anything as plainly stupid.