I live in California. Gavin Newsom’s main flaw is that he’s very stupid.
Democrats are not getting destroyed on messaging. I don’t even know what the Republican message is. I know the Democratic message is “MAGA Republicans, extreme MAGA Republicans, fascists.”
Now that is a losing message, I grant you, because Democrats who aren’t insane, for whom politics does not play a destructive force in their life, have friends, neighbors, co-workers, family members, etc., who are Republicans and understand that while Republicans have different political views, they aren’t trying to put Democrats in gulags.
Democrats are getting destroyed by reality.
Republicans are running on GDP, inflation, lying about inflation, recession, lying about recession, gas prices, food prices, stock market, crime, border security, fentanyl deaths, energy independence, foreign policy, supply chain, social corruption, silencing, lies, pronouns and fucking with children.
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the Republicans could borrow a message from Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.