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Gavin Newsom Has Some Work to Do

California's Ken doll governor is a complicated man who should probably spend less time chatting with far-right trolls on his podcast if he wants to be president.

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Ian Thomas Malone
Aug 27, 2025
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Republicans are extremely invested in the idea of masculinity, or at least their version of it. To MAGA, modern America and all its pronouns are a disgrace against the idea of our country as a Shining Cracker Barrel upon a Hill. Conservatives used to idealize the Greatest Generation, but instead of storming the beaches of Normandy to free the world from…

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