Between the filibuster and $millions in donations from the techbros, Newsom knows a national billionaire tax has absolutely no chance of passing.

The best that could be hoped for federally is a repeal of the Trump tax cuts.

But a referendum sent to the people, like the one in California, can’t be obstructed or bribed…

Curious to see what the implications will be. He's going to be a juggernaut in the '28 primary, but walking into that with his own voters rebuking him on billionaire taxation would certainly be an interesting look.

But we'll see what November brings. They're certainly going to bring every bit of political force and money to bear to defeat it. Cannot wait for this marketing campaign to start. Might as well just set fire to my phone now and remove the mailbox from the curb.

I find this a troubling part of American politics

The politicians campaign on legislative agenda that they CANNOT MAKE HAPPEN by themselves.

And so. despite beautiful "promises", Dems cannot make their promises come true

As a realist this doesn't really bother me, but for the general population they get mired in the memes of promises not kept.

As a party we need to move toward the notion that a leading public official CANNOT make things happen without a whole heaping shovel ful of popular and Congressional support. If we could get to THAT real politick thinking we might get people to recapture the belief that their voices and their votes count in the running of Government. I think THAT would greatly benefit Dems