Remember when the Biden White House tried to make doddering Joe Biden look cool with those Dark Brandon memes? They were a pale imitation of Donald Trump's meme game — "imitation" because Trump and his supporters went there first, and "pale" because that was the actual condition of our doddering pretender POTUS.
Humor requires a germ of truth, which is why those over-the-top Trump memes rarely fail to hit the funny bone. Love him, hate him, or whatever, Trump has been an over-the-top presence in American life for four decades.
This brings us to Dank Gavin. "Gavin" because it's a nerdy name perfectly suited for an awkward semi-dunce — a guy who plays at being cool but never quite pulls it off. And "Dank" because I'm pretty sure he and his clueless media team are stoned out of their gourds.
Newsom’s personal X account, I wrote last week, is now a virtual clone of Trump’s famously combative style — the distinction being that Trump ran a successful business and entertainment empire before entering politics, while Newsom’s record includes self-dealing, spiraling budget deficits, endless billion-dollar promises to end the homeless crisis, a High-Speed Train from Merced to Bakersfield Maybe Someday, and epic forest mismanagement (leading to more self-dealing).