Newsom Reveals the Cruelest Thing Ever Said About Him – It Was From His Mom, It’s Priceless, and He Doesn’t Realize How Bizarre His Response Seems to Normal People

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California tells lies with more shamelessness and ease than perhaps anyone in modern politics.

That, of course, requires us to assume that most of what Newsom says or does qualifies as performance. And that makes the true Newsom impossible to discover, for most people do not think or behave as he does.

For instance, in a review of Newsom’s forthcoming memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” Melanie Mason of Politico revealed that the future governor once bristled when his mother tried to reassure him about his learning disability and dismal academic performance.

“It’s okay to be average, Gavin,” she told him.

The future California governor was crushed at the comment, which was meant to be a consolation, Mason wrote. “I