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“There are no second acts in American lives,” is perhaps the stupidest (and best-known) line from one of America’s two most overrated works of so-called literature. Then again, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom is annoyingly glib, self-centered, and un-self-aware enough to be a character straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.”
Americahasalwaysbeenthelandofsecondacts…thirdacts.Ninthacts?Howmanytimes,goingbacktohisfirstbankruptcyin1991,hasPresidentDonaldTrumpbeendeclaredfinanciallyorpoliticallydead?Thethingis,whenitcomestofailedattemptsatbrandnewstarts,atreinvention,perhapsNewsomistheexceptionwhoprovesFitzgeraldrightjustthisonce.
Please.
NewsomhasalotofreinventingtodobeforewhatliterallyeveryoneassumeswillbehisrunfortheDemocratpresidentialnominationin2028.Seriously,thereareAmazontribesfromjungleregionssosecludedthatthey’veneverheardofprimaries,ofCalifornia,oreventheUnitedStatesofAmerica,whoneverthelesssayamongthemselves,“ThatNewsomisoneambitiousSOB.”
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