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Gavin Newsom is Going HARD Against Trump. Will It Work?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Hannah Yoest discuss Gavin Newsom’s new “dark woke” shitposting style as it overly upsets MAGA, divides Democrats, and boosts his national profile as he seems to continue to be eyeing a future presidential run.

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Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Hannah Yost.

0:26.6

And Hannah, we got you writing today about Gavin Newsom's new Twitter style. He has gone

0:34.5

full shit poster. And in what people are calling the dark woke, it's kind of exciting and thrilling.

0:42.7

And it sends a tickle up my spine.

0:46.4

So Hannah, it seems like it was just yesterday that Gavin Newsom was standing up a podcast to do outreach to people like Charlie Kirk.

0:56.0

And he was getting crapped on by the left for selling out trans kids.

1:01.6

And he seems to have abandoned all that.

1:03.5

And he has taken on a new vector of attack.

1:07.8

Tell me all about it.

1:09.7

Well, it's funny you mentioned the podcast because you and Tim

1:13.6

had mentioned that how he is this master of trying different things. And I think it's funny

1:19.6

that the left, they're like, we need a sociopath of our own. And then they get mad when he

1:24.3

does sociopath things. Like they want their own Joe Rogan.

1:30.8

So he goes out and he tries the Manistphere thing and it doesn't work. So then he's back to the drawing board.

1:33.6

And that has looked like just mimicking Trump.

1:38.5

And a lot of people like they like it at first.

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