Newsom didn't do anyone any favors by blowing up at the European leaders

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23. i'm a considered writer, not a kneejerk poster, and I always make the effort to be clear

...as I have in the op.

I don't know what you're calling 'Dem hate' but I can assure you that I don't have a modicum of hatred for Gavin Newsom, so I'm not going to spend time on that.

I've enjoyed a long enough life that I've been privileged to bring my support to each and every Dem nominee for president, and in my district and state, as well.

In those instances, I often find myself sprinting far ahead of most of the Democratic debate over their fitness or efficacy of their candidacy; looking behind and seeing not the actual opposition tearing them down, but our own professed Democrats creating drag on them.

If this fellow runs for president (I don't vote in Ca,), and I think that's what you;re getting at here, you won't find a stronger supporter when he's nominated, and I won't drag him to the ground with complaints about him being 'weak' on something or the other, or grind down on his messaging.

I don't think he did that effort any favors, and, that's what I'm getting at. he's not a candidate, but if he's seeking my vote in a primary race that's likely to have an expansive field, maybe he could demonstrate the professionalism and diplomacy that I expect from my president in publicly relating what he wants to other leaders around the world, especially our allies.

That's the leadership that I expect and have grown fond of in my decades of this.

We live in a world where the U.S.'s success has been greatly enhanced by our ability to not only forge good cooperative relationships with other nations, but our respect for their own ability to make those decisions for themselves, whether or not they want to have those relationships with us.

Although Gov. Newsom gave their sovereignty lip service after berating them, he did so with the assumption that European leaders had an obligation to stand with a California governor whose country doesn't seem to have it's sit together enough to even save his own state from Trump yet, admittedly, despite how 'tall and strong' he's decidedly been in opposition.

Newsom hasn't yet figured out how to stop Trump, any more than leaders who aren't in any way a part of the solution to removing him from power. He has a Dem dominated state with a solid, workable Dem majority. He can't assume everyone else can just muscle their way through this crisis.

What's wrong with just leaving it at speaking his mind to those leaders, and not coming out and deriding them at the same time Trump is attacking them from the other side? Wouldn't it be more effective to continue to appeal to them in private, instead of trying to emasculate them in this forum?

I got the sense here that Newsom is on a learning curve, and it's frankly surprising to see him come forth with a response that's so scolding and condescending. I'd think he'd realize Europeans have had more than enough of that kind of arrogance from the U.S. already, and would offer a different face to allies who'v been treated as doormats lately, despite their past sacrifices for this country.

I mean, he's not actually the boss of them.