Poor Gavin Newsom. The governor has not swallowed this inductive inductive rate since he visited French laundry.
In the three weeks since Donald Trump assumed the position, he has not spent a day without a presidential assault on democratic norms, the overreach of the executive branch or the unpleasant broadcast of the ardor in chief of the nation.
Newsom's response, who once imagined the avant -garde of Trump's resistance, has been largely ignoring the president's actions, or issuing some airy topics with the weight of a shooting pillow.
When Newsom signed the legislation last week, authorizing $ 50 million for fofar in sight.
Good for him.
All that reluctance has to leave a bad taste in Newsom's mouth. (We are not talking about the Kitchen of the Signé wine that led the governor in so many problems after he enjoyed a Michelin star meal with friends during the pandemic blockade).
But that is what is needed to stay on Trump's good side and see California receives the federal relief of forest fires that he desperately needs, and tens of thousands of residents afflicted in the Los Angeles area, then, so it is.
It is an instinct in some political circles to shout, trample and vent in each Trump provocation. That is a way to release tension, and it is not an unreasonable response to the horror show that has put the last fifteen and a half days.
But, really, how politically productive has that been?
It is not as if Trump kept his plans secretly during the presidential campaign. He still achieved a clear victory over Kamala Harris and even won the popular vote, although he fell under a majority of 50%.
That is not at all suggesting that capitulation is in order. Innumerable legal fights are being carried out to verify the authoritarian actions of Trump, and the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, is among those who have used a rhythm in the courts of the court fighting against Trump and his co -president, Elon Musk.
On the contrary, Newsom has chosen a diplomatic approach, which plays with the need for Trump's Pupbylike for constant praise and attention.
The governor crashed the president's arrival when Trump flew to Lax last month to examine fire damage in Pacific Palisades, and his forced encounter proved to be Bonhomie and Bromance. An extended hands. Shoulder brooches.
“I appreciate that the governor comes out and met me,” Trump said gracefully, despite the lack of an invitation.
“Thank you for being here,” said Newsom with demand. “It means a lot.”
Last week, the two curled up in the Oval office for 90 minutes, a session that touched the forest fire recovery help and California's rejection against Trump, among other issues. Subsequently, Newsom described his meeting as “real and substantive” and “positive.”
“There is familiarity and there was a relationship that was born from a crisis around Covid,” Newsom told Taryn Luna from the Times Sacramento office, pointing out how Trump gave California during the pandemic. “I wanted to return to that space.”
The fact that Trump decided to leave the first, the last and only public word in his meeting to Newsom, or “NewScum”, as the president has called it, said a lot about the current state of his relationship.
Of course, nothing of calm would be necessary if Trump, in a ruthless break with precedents, would not have threatened to retain the relief of disasters until he obtains certain political concessions: an unnecessary review of the California electoral system and more water for their benefactors politicians in the agricultural country of the State.
But that is the world we live in.
And who knows how long the Newsom Trump hold will last. According to reports, an action of application of “large -scale” immigration soon planned for the Los Angeles area will surely prove its political fire.
Inevitably, every movement made by Newsom against its perceived presidential ambitions.
That is nonsense for any number of reasons, especially the fact that the campaign is at the political years away. As Lis Smith suggested, a national democratic campaign strategist, “anyone who sees this through the policy lens in 2028 probably needs to log in.”
(For those who contain their breathing, the next presidential elections are not for another 1,363 days).
That said, one of the best things that Newsom could do for its presidential hopes is to supervise a successful recovery of the January storm, one of those epic crises that could well do or break political careers. “The most important thing for any governor or candidate for any position,” said Smith, “is that they do a good job.”
Once the Democratic Nomination Contest begins, candidates will surely face a fire test to measure the fiercely anti-triunfo that each one has been. It is not difficult to imagine that some are bristling in the Newsom accommodation of this more transactional transactional of the presidents, or taking the kind things that the governor has said about Trump and using that adulation against him.
But Newsom is doing precisely what he should, leaving aside any personal mood and political ambition for the help and comfort of those whom he was chosen to serve.
It shouldn't be done to eat those words.
