General Discussion

I like both Crockett and Gavin Newsom. (Voting for Talarico in the primary, but will gladly donate to Jasmine if she's the candidate after March.) As far as 2028 goes, I see Gavin standing up. I see a short list of people doing that: AOC, Bernie (who likely won't run), Crockett, Elizabeth Warren. Everyone who I see taking decisive action has some reason or another why they are unelectable according to the new thinking. Too Californian. Too female. Not white. Oops, they're Jewish. Smartest candidate we've got. Too bad he's gay.

One of these candidates is going to be our 2028 candidate. The voters are going to decide. I am not prepared to let the republicans choose both my candidate and theirs, so I am not willing to settle for a white male christian straight middle of the country choice because honestly? None of those choices impress me at this point. I think our voters will come out for a candidate who leads. They did for Obama. That candidate might be female. They might be a POC. They might be gay. They might be Californian. We don't know yet. It's still early days. We need to see who is going to step up and lead in this terrible moment.

What annoys me is democrats taking down our own best people. We are at a terrible place in history. Why aren't Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers using that energy to go after republicans? Why are they trying to tear down our candidates? Unnecessary. I don't want to hear from them who they think has no chance, who they think should be anointed. Let the voters decide. If they want to use their platform to tear people down, try going after the other side.