Newsom’s Social Media Team Freaks, Glowingly Compares Candidate to ‘American Psycho’ Who Used Acid to Mutilate Woman

The joke nickname for California Gov. Gavin Newsom for some time now has been Patrick Bateman — the psychotic yuppie serial murderer from Brett Easton Ellis’ novel “American Psycho.”

Part of this is because of the fact that Newsom does indeed resemble Christian Bale’s portrayal of the character in the movie adaptation — particularly that otterine hairstyle, which went out with Pat Riley — but the name has stuck because his persona resembles that of the character: sociopathic, devoid of any emotion aside from the drive for status and wealth, self-obsessed, vile, vain, mercurial, facile, amoral, entitled, cruel, and a man who spends an inordinate amount of his time trying to hide all of this behind a façade of something that might plausibly pass as a human being.

Granted, there are some differences. For instance, he’s never killed a co-worker in his apartment with an axe after explaining the finer