Gavin Newsom's "Constitutional Crisis": Fact-Checking The Reality Show
When performance meets inconvenient facts
Well, well, well. Governor Gavin Newsom stepped up to the podium last night with all the convincing gravitas of a TikTok influencer reading a teleprompter, delivering what can only be described as presidential cosplay so transparent you could see his political ambitions through it from orbit. His address about the ongoing situation in Los Angeles was packed with constitutional crisis rhetoric, democracy-under-assault warnings, and enough hyperbole to power a small city.
But here's the thing about political performances—they work best when the audience doesn't have access to the receipts. Unfortunately for Newsom, I do. And those receipts tell a very different story than the one he's selling.
Let's take this apart piece by piece, shall we? Because apparently, someone needs to do the media's job for them. (Again.)