I predicted, just two days ago, that the Philadelphia Inquirer’s liberal columnists would be “outraged” by Radnor High School’s decision to remove three “graphic novels” — a fancy term for comic books — dealing with homosexuality and transgenderism from the school library as “age inappropriate” for high schoolers. I have previously said:

Somehow, the hard left have persuaded themselves that they must take the furthest left position possible on anything even remotely regarding to sex, or they’d be enabling us evil reich-wing conservatives and Donald Trump supporters.

Thus far, I haven’t found any OpEd pieces of columns condemning Radnor High School’s action, but it’s no surprise to me that the furthest left columnist, Will Bunch, is absolutely apoplectic that Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is expressing a sensible position on ‘transgenderism’. Mr Bunch skeeted — a skeet is the slang word for a tweet on Bluesky — this morning:

I always thought Newsom would be a terrible 2028 candidate for the Dems but this clinches it — he is utterly dead to me.

I’m hardly the first person to point this out, but my entire adult life (I was a college senior when Reagan was elected in ’80, now I get senior discounts) the Dems have cowered in fear and tried to be what they think the public wants, instead of offering moral leadership. GN is just the worst case

What piqued Mr Bunch’s ire?

Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports

The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.

by Christopher Cadelago | Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 7:53 AM EST

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.

“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said in his debut podcast episode of “This is Gavin Newsom.” “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”

Newsom’s comments on the issue roiling political debates nationwide came in a conversation with influential MAGA-world figure Charlie Kirk, the campus culture warrior who leads the organization Turning Point USA and is a close ally of President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.

Hyperlink to Turning Point USA added by me; it was not in the Politico original.

The distinguished Mr Bunch is probably just as outraged that Mr Newsom even spoke with Charlie Kirk as he is over the Governor’s statements. He was, after all, just as outraged that MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe and Mika Scarborough went to Mar-a-Lago to interview Mr Trump after the election.

Newsom also agreed that the most politically destructive attack ads from Trump’s campaign featured Kamala Harris’ support for providing taxpayer-funded gender transition-related medical care for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.

“She didn’t even react to it, which was even more devastating,” Newsom said, suggesting upward of 90 percent of Americans disagreed with Harris’ position. “Then you had the video [of Harris] as a validator. Brutal,” Newsom added. “It was a great ad.”

In other words, Mr Newsom told the truth; no wonder Mr Bunch was upset!

Kirk challenged Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, to speak out against AB Hernandez, a transgender high school track star from California whose triple jump event in the women’s competition is drawing fierce backlash from the right. Newsom said he has four children of his own — including two daughters — and noted that both he and his wife participated in college-level sports, she in soccer and he in baseball.

You can follow the link to the original; there is more there.

It’s not just A B Hernandez. This site has previously covered the case of Brayden Fleming, the male volleyball player calling himself “Blaire” and leading San José State University’s women’s volleyball team; San José is in the Pyrite State, so the Governor is almost certainly aware of it.

Mr Newsom is almost certainly running for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, and I have previously referred to him as the “2028 Democratic presidential nominee.” Why would he have started his own podcast if he weren’t trying to position himself for that campaign?

“Traci with an i” responded to Mr Bunch:

Wait. Don’t we want politicians to do what public wants? WE are the public. They work for us.

Well, no, Mr Bunch does not want politicians to do what the public want. He had already stated:

the Dems have cowered in fear and tried to be what they think the public wants, instead of offering moral leadership.

Which begs the question: is it truly “moral leadership” to want Will Thomas to beating up on women in the swimming pool? Mr Bunch is almost certainly aware of that idiocy, in that it was covered by how own newspaper, and was a major story about the University of Pennsylvania, in his home area. He might not be aware of Mr Thomas’ real name, since the Inky always referred to him by his faux name of “Lia.”

The columnist spent all of 2024, and earlier, telling us how it was absolutely vital to defeat Mr Trump in the election, to save democracy. Yet here he is, telling us that what the public want isn’t what running for election is all about. Mr Bunch wants to impose on Americans the ideology of the left, and he always will, even though the United States is not a leftist nation.

This is a strange hill on which to die, but if that’s what Mr Bunch wants to do, hey, let him!