Gavin Newsom: The REAL American Psycho

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He’s a slick, self-obsessed figure from a bygone era, utterly detached from the carnage around him. But enough about Patrick Bateman.

Let’s talk about Gavin Newsom.

Patrick Bateman, the protagonist of American Psycho, is a study in grotesque duality. He is a hollow man of curated tastes—obsessed with his business card’s watermark, his skincare routine, and reservations at Dorsia—all while the city around him decays in a haze of ’80s greed and moral rot. He is utterly detached from the consequences of his actions, seeing the world not as a community but as a backdrop for his own meticulously crafted image.

One can’t help but see a parallel in Governor Gavin Newsom.

He possesses that same Bateman-esque sheen: the perfectly coiffed hair, the suit that’s a half-size too sharp, the rehearsed, vacuous charm. He speaks in the smooth, focus-grouped cadence of a man who believes his own press releases, even as the tangible results of his governance—from San Francisco’s streets to the state’s fiscal challenges—tell a very different story. It’s the same chilling disconnect: a performance of competence playing out against a backdrop of managed decline. Where Bateman’s monstrosity was literal, Newsom’s is a political one—a belief that the aesthetic of success is the same thing as success itself.

In this interview, Jonathan Karl reveals what everybody knows about Newsom, and he doesn’t like it.

Newsom is the prototypical Leftist, ergo their muse.

Like Newsom and his fellow Democrats, Patrick Bateman’s entire existence was a performance—a vacuous shell meticulously polished to hide the utter lack of substance within. He’d lecture you on the genius of Huey Lewis while committing atrocities, completely detached from the carnage he caused.

Modern-day Democrats with Gavin Newsom as their choirboy, showcase the same Bateman-esque gleam: the perfectly shellacked hair, the soulless, focus-grouped cadence, the unwavering self-regard as cities like San Francisco achieve new levels of squalor. They don’t see failing schools, open-air drug markets, or a border so porous it might as well had been a suggestion; they see a backdrop for their latest virtue-signaling press conference.

Their policies are the political equivalent of Bateman’s business card monologue—obsessed with meaningless, surface-level virtue while the actual machinery of society grinds to a halt.

Their open border policy represented their “compassion”, while it hid the evil underbelly of election rigging.

“Gender-affirming care” for minors hid their sinister homage to the medical industrial complex. They relished it with the same cult-like fervor Bateman reserved for his skincare routine, dismissing any dissent as bigotry.

The true psycho-logic is in the unshakable conviction. Despite all evidence to the contrary—the fleeing taxpayers, the rampant crime, the inflationary policies that hollow out the middle class—they, like Bateman, believe their own hype. They look at the disaster they’ve engineered, smile with perfectly polished teeth, and say, “I’m simply doing a great job.”

It’s not just bad governance. It’s a clinical detachment from reality. And the Democrats haven’t just nominated one psycho; they’ve become a party of them. But maybe Newsom is more like this character from The Wolf of Wall Street?

Regardless of which character you pick, understand that Hollywood knows how to mimic. And it has captured the essence of Leftism to a tee.

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