PanThe New Statesman (UK)We learn little about why Newsom actually wants to be a politician ... The fact his book is so detached from the panic among Democrats that Trump is reading the last rites to American democracy shows Newsom’s optimism ... Newsom has always been in a hurry. But he still doesn’t really know what he is hurrying towards.
PanThe New StatesmanKamala Harris’s 304-page excuse for why she lost ... The surreal tone, and the unwillingness to ponder what the voters actually wanted…is so vast that it becomes clear her only aim is to defend her reputation, not reflect on the consequences of her and Biden’s cowardice and solipsism ... She is incurious about the populist age in which we live ... Having offered this contentless, self-exculpating analysis, she concludes that politics is so broken that she no longer thinks working inside the system can solve anything ... The entire premise of the book is a revealing self-deception.
