If this Clickhole article is to be believed (it shouldn’t be), California’s governor is looking to get a job in comedy.

The reality is a bit less appealing: Gavin Newsom wants to be president of the U S. His office has ramped up social media attacks on Donald Trump, his policies, and, predictably, his bugnuts tweeting. I have witnessed the rise of Gavin Newsom firsthand: from his tenure as mayor of San Francisco to the governorship of my state to this deeply embarrassing photo with a future resident of Mar-a-Lago. At last, the world can finally see the Gavin Newsom I have come to vehemently tolerate – a man with a tendency to stumble into doing the right thing in the most annoying way possible.

Newsom is the kind of politician who will seize the moment – legalizing same-sex marriage in San Francisco back in 2004, most significantly – as long as the moment is somewhere near a camera and an operating microphone. We are in one of those dreaded “moments” right now, as Texas gerrymanders itself to rig the midterms in the favor of Republicans. Newsom is taking full advantage, pushing to gerrymander California in response and turning over one of his office’s social media accounts to run a comic offensive against the White House. In the process, he is doing the thing I hate the most: weaponizing nostalgia.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing, like a rank body odor or a French cheese. Don’t we all love turning back the hands of time and pretending like we still have all our hair, we can stand for more than 30 minutes of an Oasis concert and Twitter is a thing that matters to normal people? Remember 2017? That was a fun year. The Women’s March, the release of the original Nintendo Switch, and Montenegro joining Nato (ugh, finally). It was........

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