Why Does Gavin Newsom Sound Like a Right-Wing Troll?

Mr. Schmitz is the editor of the magazine Compact.

Not so long ago, the future was female. That expectation was most memorably expressed a few weeks before the presidential election in 2016, when Hillary Clinton posted a picture of her young self on Twitter with the caption “Happy birthday to this future president.” Though Donald Trump’s victory dashed her presidential hopes, it did not end her faith in the direction of history. “I remain convinced that, yes, the future is female,” she later said.

Joe Biden agreed. In the 2020 presidential campaign, he described himself as a........

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