I have a personal theory, which surprises me inasmuch as 1) I haven’t seen it brought up anywhere yet and 2) it’s the only thing that makes a whole lot of political weirdness make sense.
The theory is this: Gavin Newsom, or someone on his comms team, owes a lot of money to the wrong people, and they plan to make it up by placing a huge bet against the California governor in the 2028 Democratic presidential race on the prediction markets.
My proof of this is only circumstantial, I’ll admit, inasmuch as his team seems to be following the same strategy of capturing the nomination that Messrs. Bialystock and Bloom followed to capture a profit off their play “Springtime for Hitler” in Mel Brooks’ film “The Producers” — namely, not only not trying to get it, but actively avoiding it by any means possible and/or necessary. But it fits.
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