Jon Lovett

So yeah, like I'm not super interested in these kinds of like signaling policy pronouncements.

The governors have a little bit of an advantage here because, you know, we've seen Pritzker out there and he's having to make decisions about how to fight Trump in his state while doing the best he can, you know, to get the federal dollars he needs, what have you.

Same for Newsom and some of the other governors.

But like if you're not currently a governor, if you're a senator or if you're not in power, like if you're not going to be showing up to lead this fight now, like nobody's interested in you showing up on a white horse in Iowa in 2027, you know?

I am, yeah.

I want Democrats to,

in this big, rich, democratic state to govern successfully.

I want us to prove that we know what we're doing because it is a pretty tall order to tell the country we're here to save you while people are fleeing from California to Texas.

And that is a legitimate, valid criticism of how Democrats govern.

It'd be one thing if I thought, oh, that's so unfair.

The problems in the Democratic coalition in California have nothing to do with the problems that Democrats have nationally.

And I just don't think that's true.

I think the same kind of pathologies that we see locally in California are part of the problem nationally.

They're different.

It's a big, big country, different issues, all that.

But

When I see the ways in which California Democrats, especially in Los Angeles, aren't taking the housing crisis seriously, aren't doing enough to deal with the fact that Hollywood is making fewer and fewer television shows and movies in Hollywood, and it's

fucking with people's livelihoods.

It's, it's, it's destroying people's dreams.

It's making people give up on what they imagine their lives would be because we can't get our shit together and figure out how it's more affordable to make television shows in London, in fucking London than it is in Los Angeles, in the TMZ.