WARNING: SUPER-SPREADER OF THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNIST DEMOCRAT WOKE VIRUS

While California reels from spiraling debt, housing crises, rampant homelessness, and a floundering public infrastructure, Governor Gavin Newsom is on a Southern charm offensive — in South Carolina.

Yes, you read that right. Instead of tackling the mounting dysfunction in his home state, Newsom will be sipping coffee in rural diners and posing for selfies in South Carolina, all under the guise of “helping Democrats win back the House in 2026.” But to many Californians, and increasingly to political observers nationwide, this “On the Road” tour feels less like a mission to uplift forgotten voters and more like a soft launch of his 2028 presidential campaign.

Let’s be honest: South Carolina isn’t on the map for a governor managing a $68 billion budget deficit. It’s not home to the over 180,000 homeless Californians or the thousands of small businesses struggling under excessive regulation and taxation. It’s not where wildfires, crumbling infrastructure, or water shortages are threatening millions. That’s Newsom’s California,  a state that’s becoming a poster child for democrat corruption and bureaucratic mismanagement.

And yet, while Californians brace for higher taxes and fewer services, Newsom is busy “building partnerships” in red counties that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. His campaign-style swing through eight of South Carolina’s most conservative rural counties, places where Democrats haven’t won in decades, raises more eyebrows than it does poll numbers.

According to the South Carolina Democratic Party, the trip is meant to show rural voters they aren’t forgotten. But who exactly is being forgotten here? The governor’s full-time job is in Sacramento, not the Pee Dee region. Californians elected him to run the nation’s largest economy,  not audition for a national stage in church basements and coffee shops 3,000 miles away.

Newsom’s advisors deny he’s laying the groundwork for a White House bid, insisting he’s “squarely focused” on 2026. But his recent history, from ad buys in Texas and Florida to his nationally televised debate with Ron DeSantis, tells a different story. This is a governor who’s clearly addicted to the spotlight, and South Carolina is just his latest political backdrop.

Meanwhile, back home, California’s “progress” is stuck in reverse. Despite touting policies like free community college and universal preschool, many Californians are fleeing the state due to skyrocketing living costs, deteriorating public safety, and a dysfunctional energy grid. Newsom’s tenure has been marked more by ambition than results, more press conferences than problem-solving.

Bottom Line

The reality is this: California needs a full-time governor, not a part-time presidential hopeful. Voters didn’t send Newsom to Sacramento to be a traveling salesman for the national Democratic Party. They sent him to fix the mess at home.

Until he does, South Carolinians and the rest of America would do well to take heed. Gavin Newsom, the hair-jelled elitist, is a super-spreader of the progressive communist democrat woke virus that promises to infect other states with the very dysfunction he should be curing in California.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve