Imagine if Newsom had the courage to appoint Ms. Butler WITHOUT having first said he would fish in a small pond. Now this highly competent woman goes into the books as just another affirmative action hire.

Identitarian promises alienate far more people than they please, but cowardly Democrats keep making them because their base keeps demanding them. You think Kevin McCarthy was gutless? Try getting a Democrat to cross Jim Cliburn.

Democrats are lucky they don't have to run against a real other party.