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I can't wait for angry liberals to blame leftists for another historic loss after they choose to run Newsom against all reason.
All the more reason to start making sure people know they can vote in D primaries without any obligations in the general.
The only way Newsom gets the nomination, is if billionaires convince people not to vote in the Dem primary. And they've already started their propaganda.
So we absolutely need to make sure Dem primary turnout is as high as possible.
The neoliberal voters will show up in the primary, we can't just let them have it.
I don't think I have voted for the eventual winner in the Democratic primary since Obama in 2008. But the current primary process is broken, and only exists to rubber-stamp the establishment candidate. And remember that in 2008, Obama was not the establishment candidate, his win was not expected. If anything, the party has made the primary process even more of a game since then.
Having said that, though, if Newsom is the primary winner I will hold my nose and vote for him, because he will still be better than any Republican. (And if Trump is still alive by then, we will know that whoever gets the nomination will be in his pocket, anyway).
I would fix the Democratic Party primary process by doing it all in one month. Four weeks in May or June, 12 to 13 states per week, rotating by region. Fuck all these states who think they are special by having "first in the nation" primaries or caucuses, where the one Podunk town with 13 registered voters gets to be in the news every 4 years. Every state is important.
Oh, and do it on Saturday. Let the media cover it like it's fucking March Madness.