California Governor Gavin Newsom recently told CNN that in order to win elections, Democrats need to be more ‘culturally normal.’
He emphasized that Democrats need to spend less time talking about gender and pronouns and more time focused on the issues that matter to most Americans, like the economy, jobs, housing, etc.
While Newsom is making a valid point for once, his party is simply not capable of doing this. They have made it clear that things like ‘trans rights’ are more important to them than housing or any other pressing issue.
FOX News reports:
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., told CNN’s Dana Bash that Democrats will need to be more “culturally normal” on issues like transgender athletes in women’s sports if they want to win voters.
The “Inside Politics” host aired the rest of her lengthy interview with the California governor and potential 2028 presidential candidate about his new book, “Young Man in a Hurry,” on Monday. One of the topics included whether he still believed transgender athletes were being used as a “wedge issue” in the party.
“From a tactical perspective, from the prism of purely politics, there’s no doubt that the Democratic Party needs to be, dare I say, more culturally normal. I believe that – less prone to spending a disproportionate amount of time on pronouns, identity, politics, more focused on tabletop issues, things that really matter, the stacking of stress in terms of electricity bills and childcare costs and healthcare and obviously housing costs and how easily we get trapped in that, how I’ve fallen prey to that,” Newsom said.
Newsom claimed to have spoken from his experience being at the forefront of Democrats defending the issue and after receiving backlash for his more moderate position, arguing that there needed to be more nuance.
Here’s the video:
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Democratic Party needs to be more “culturally normal” and focus less on things like pronouns. pic.twitter.com/cLoRVRsm3Q
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) February 23, 2026
Think about what the Democrat National Convention is going to look like for 2028. Does Gavin Newsom really believe that it won’t be full of trans activists and candidates pledging to support them? Of course it will.
Newsom’s instincts may be right here, but that is simply not where his party is today. They can’t make it through an election speech without sounding downright abnormal to most Americans. The gender issue is a hill their party will die upon.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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