Gavin Newsom acknowledges that rootless cosmopolitans have too much influence on German finance

Or at least that’s what he would be doing if had a time machine set to 1934 Berlin.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.

“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said in his debut podcast episode of “This is Gavin Newsom.” “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”

And who was Brave Sir Gavin, the governor from Getty Oil, agreeing with about all this?

Why none other than straight up fascist bootlicker Charlie Kirk, who was the very first guest on Newsom’s new I’m Running For the Bill Maher Vote in the 2028 Presidential Election blog:

Newsom’s comments on the issue roiling political debates nationwide came in a conversation with influential MAGA-world figure Charlie Kirk, the campus culture warrior who leads the organization Turning Point USA and is a close ally of President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr. . . .

Kirk challenged Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, to speak out against AB Hernandez, a transgender high school track star from California whose triple jump event in the women’s competition is drawing fierce backlash from the right. Newsom said he has four children of his own — including two daughters — and noted that both he and his wife participated in college-level sports, she in soccer and he in baseball.

“I revere sports, so the issue of fairness is completely legit,” Newsom said. “And I saw that — the last couple years, boy did I [see] how you guys were able to weaponize that issue at another level.”

Kirk challenged Newsom over his use of the word “weaponize,” and Newsom replaced it with “highlight.”

POLITICO last month was first to report Newsom’s new podcast, with the Democratic governor saying he drew inspiration from the likes of HBO provocateur Bill Maher, who regularly finds common ground with conservative adversaries while taking frequent aim at Democratic dogma, including on youth trans issues.

If there weren’t a massive moral panic over trans issues in America at this moment, fomented by right wing “influencers” — now there’s a word Goebbels would have just loved — it might be possible to have a reasoned debate about the fairness issues implicated here, in the same way one might have a debate about say age restrictions for high school athletes and the like. Assuming that can opener, it would make sense for this sort of thing to be debated and resolved at the local level, which is where such technical issues, that nobody but a tiny handful of athletes or more likely their parents care about, are supposed to be resolved. (Again this would make sense if the debate were actually about fairness in high school athletics, as opposed the real debate, which is whether trans people should be allowed to exist in contemporary America).

But there is a massive moral panic about trans issues in America at the moment, which trans people could quite reasonably see as having some genocidal under or overtones. So having a “reasonable” debate about this is kind of like having a “reasonable” debate about usury laws in 1934 Berlin. In other words, that debate isn’t going to be reasonable: it’s going to be fuel for a fire that’s being exploited by the worst people in the world for the worst possible reasons.

And as for debating this with Charlie Kirk in a friendly and respectful way:

Newsom’s interview with Kirk was friendly, sometimes exceedingly so. He mentioned the influence Kirk and other MAGA-world figures have had on his 13-year-old son, distanced himself from the use of pronouns and the gender-neutral term “Latinx,” called police defunding “lunacy,” denounced “cancel culture” and agreed that there had been some internal issues in the leadership of the Black Lives Matter organization.

Besides being morally depraved, this is also stupid politics on Newsom’s part, because Bill Clinton-era triangulation doesn’t work with fascists, who only like triangles when they’re pink, and worn involuntarily.