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Every story about Gavin Newsom must be prefaced by the acknowledgment that the California governor is a bloodless political chameleon whose moral code seems to be permanently up for negotiation. This is a man whose knee-jerk reaction to Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 was to jump in a podcast studio with the unhinged right-wing ideologue Charlie Kirk and characterize the participation of trans athletes in women’s sports as “deeply unfair.” That pivot, like so many others in the Newsom doctrine, seemed to be the result of a man guesstimating the current orientation of the vibe shift and quickly closing ranks around his newly triangulated opinion. (It is also precisel

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