Gavin Newson says we have to do things differently and not show weakness

[Eliot Rosewater]

Newsom: “We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that.

The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose.”
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Later in the video on blue sky or earlier in the comment he said can’t show weakness, implying that what we are doing now does.

Some of us have been saying for a while now that no traditional method of reacting to this will work, and now the Governor is saying the same thing.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. @acyn.bsky.social

Is where the story is and video of the governor.

[jxla]

7. Link to acyn.bsky.social post (2:05 video) and full 14:03 YT video

Newsom: We can’t do things the way we’ve done. Let’s disabuse ourselves of that.

The Democratic Party needs to assert itself. We need to be strong again. Strength matters. People want conviction. They want character. They want a sense of intention and purpose…

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T03:13:26.965Z

YouTube Full video (14:03) "Trump CRASH ENDING could QUICKLY HIT…"

[Scrivener7]

2. Gavin Newsom is right.

I am really admiring this. He made an unforced error with the podcast, but took the temperature of Democrats and realized it wasn't what we wanted. So he tried something else.

That's a very FDR move: just try everything. Something will work.

[efhmc]

3. We know the problems so now give us some actions. This Dem Texan like many of my friends is not giving

another cent out of state. For one thing, I have never even seen a single one of the commercials I helped pay for.

[bronxiteforever]

4. Great insight! I am a big FDR fan and you bringing this up

is brilliant. It is exactly what FDR would do. We need that shrewdness now.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Yes, I've been trying to make the point around here and elsewhere

Without becoming too obvious that we cannot deal with this without showing much more “aggression,” I’ll use that politically correct word I guess.

Protest in the street with signs will do nothing, I participate and I promote them still but they will do nothing.

Even if the truth came out about him and Epstein which will not happen now because the Department of justice will cover it all up and create false documents implying that Democrats did things but he didn’t, but even if the truth came out, it will make no difference. This really is as bad as we think it is.

At some point people are going to need to defend themselves.

[Paladin]

6. Music to my ears.

Lead on, Governor Newsom. I will damn sure follow.