The ambitious California governor refused to dismiss the motivations of MAGA world as simply “racism and misogyny.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said on a Tuesday podcast episode that conservative media figure Steve Bannon sounds a lot like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and “what Democrats said 20, 30 years ago.” “When you talk to a guy like Steve Bannon,

I don’t think you can dismiss what [Steve Bannon is] saying, reminds me a lot of what Bernie Sanders was saying, reminds me a lot of what Democrats said 20, 30 years ago,” Newsom told