We All Deserve Better Than Gavin Newsom (with Emma Vigeland and Kat Blaque)

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Matt Bernstein

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Gavin Newsom, the California governor who’s been seemingly anointed to the throne of the Democratic Party, thinks Democrats should be more “culturally normal.” He thinks we should spend less time talking about pronouns. He won’t tax billionaires, and he’s had approximately four different positions on Israel in the last six weeks. Yet two and half years out from the 2028 election, some inside the party are already demanding allegiance to the newest spineless, corporate candidate in a long line of spineless, corporate candidates. This week, Emma Vigeland, Kat Blaque and I air our grievances with a man who believes in nothing, and a party that touts democracy while practicing nothing of the sort. We all deserve better. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Thanks to today’s sponsors! Support a fairer future free from religious overreach at https://humanist.org/fruity Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off Follow Emma on Instagram. Watch Emma on The Majority Report. Follow Kat on Instagram. Watch Kat on YouTube. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you guys see this morning that Gavin Newsom called Israel and apartheid state?
0:04.5	Oh, okay.
0:05.9	I guess he got some poll numbers back in.
0:08.1	I can appreciate when a worm wriggles towards the light.
0:12.1	I think you can appreciate it while also saying that that's not leadership.
0:25.2	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFrudy.
0:30.3	I'm Matt Bernstein, and I got into some trouble on Twitter last week.
0:33.6	And I need to tell you about it, because this is a little rough. So this all started when Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, who's pretty
0:39.1	openly preparing his run to be the Democratic nominee for president in 28, didn't interview on
0:45.2	CNN where he said that, quote, the Democratic Party needs to be more culturally normal.
0:51.5	No doubt that the Democratic Party needs to be, dare I say, more culturally normal.
0:57.0	And to stop spending what he thinks is a quote,
1:00.2	disproportionate amount of time on pronouns.
1:06.2	Culturally normal.
1:08.2	Culturally normal.
1:09.9	These words have been rattling around in my brain lately.
1:13.2	I'm someone who is visibly outside of the cultural norm in America.
1:17.7	You know, right-wingers online will often just post pictures of me with no added context,
1:22.7	because to them, my culturally abnormal appearance is an insult in and of itself.
1:28.6	So when I hear the potential supposedly left-wing option for president calling for a return to
1:34.6	cultural normalcy, I anxiously want to know what he means by that.
1:40.1	Anyway, I tweeted sarcastically, we abandoned LGBT people in the 2024 election and lost.
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