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Watch: Resurfaced Video of Newsom's Bizarre Body Movements Has People Calling for Drug Test Immediately

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Watch: Resurfaced Video of Newsom's Bizarre Body Movements Has People Calling for Drug Test Immediately

One of the nastier nicknames for California Gov. Gavin Newsom is “Patrick Bateman.” He’s the thoroughly amoral yuppie protagonist of the novel and film “American Psycho.”

The reason is that Gavin bears more than a slight resemblance to him morally and a massive resemblance to the Christian Bale portrayal in the 1999 film version. Of the least of the fictional Mr. Bateman’s sins is that he’s a frequent user of recreational drugs, especially cocaine. He also likes killing people in sickeningly innovative ways.

Newsom’s thoroughly weird social media team, inexplicably, has tried to lean into this comparison, including with this tone-deaf X post in March:

“Gavin 2028: You Like Huey Lewis and the News?”

Anyhow, despite the fact that Gavin has a bit........

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