Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a wildly rambling response when asked a straightforward question about his brand of politics — invoking MLK Jr., Gandhi and the “spirit of the ’60s.”
Duringan interviewwith comedian and podcast host Adam Friedland, theCalifornia governorserved up a word salad when asked point-blank what he wanted to accomplish politically.
“You know, I don’t have like a brand, I don’t have a tag —Make America Greator the Great Society or something like Medicare for All. But for me, no bulls—t — it’s just standing up for ideals, striking out against injustice that defines my ‘why’ in every way, shape, form,” Newsom said.
He then veered even more off the rails, mentioningMLK, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
“Stand up for ideals. Strike out against injustice. I’m a Sargent Shriver Democrat. I mean, in that whole ’60s, the vernacular, the ’60s, solving for ignorance and poverty, disease and the spirit of the ’60s, the spirit of King, by the movement in Gandhi and Mandela, that whole set of moral authority space,” he continued.
“That’s the zeitgeist, yeah, and that’s that. So that’s me. That’s my dad. So it’s my mom, that’s the book, and that’s my ‘why’,” Newsom added.
“So if you had to define it: ‘Vote for me and you get X,'” Friedland pressed the governor.
“I just gave you my ‘why,’ but how do you translate that into human?” Newsom asked.
A seemingly baffled and confused Friedland could only reply “What?”
After all the wandering responses, Newsom offered up an excuse for his incomprehensibility.
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