It’s been a rough stretch for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the man who is rumored to be running for president despite an absolutely epic run of failure by his administration. You’ve got a multi-billion-dollar train to nowhere, the largest homeless population in the nation, an exodus of residents and businesses, and entire sections of Los Angeles burned down in 2025’s wildfires with only an anemic recovery effort to show for it.
For starters.
When Newsom decided that dealing with California's issues was beneath him, and instead decided to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this month to cosplay as a world leader, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent absolutely savaged him as he pointed out just how bad the famously coiffed governor has been for the Golden State.
It only got worse after that for Gavin, as he was not allowed to deliver his scheduled Davos speech at the USA House pavilion and instead had to listen to his nemesis, President Donald Trump, showing the gathered elites that he was the leader of the United States, and that American economic and military might was here to stay.
Fresh Humiliation for Gavin Newsom As He’s Barred From USA House Pavilion in Davos
Now that Davos is over, Newsom has some new mockery to contend with: street art titled “Comrade Newsom” showing him in communist gear. Fits pretty well, no?
🚨 ‘Comrade Newsom’s Invisible Coup’ street art just dropped in LA & Sacramento, hammer & sickle vibes, ballot babies, and Gavin in full commie cosplay.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 26, 2026
California’s turning into a Soviet theme park and the locals are NOT having it. pic.twitter.com/K0xO5boreu
Did the new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, inspire the art?
The street art appears to hit many of the bombshell themes in Schweizer’s book, now the #1 book on Amazon, from the “Manchurian Generation” of more than one million Chinese with U.S. citizenship who grew up in communist China and could be eligible to vote in the 2030 American elections to the thousands of Chinese pilots sent to the U.S. and taught to fly.
Online sleuths suspect the work might be the legendary street artist Sabo, whom RedState has reported on before. He’s put up some pretty funny — but right on the mark — material before:
This series is devastating. pic.twitter.com/vZgnZF0FrW
— Roxanne Hoge (@RoxanneHoge) June 14, 2024
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I often think that humor is one of the best political weapons there is, because if it’s good, it can expose the foibles of some of our worst politicians in an image instead of hundreds of words (not that I’m opposed to words, too — they work hand in hand).
Images like this remind us of when Newsom basically admitted in 2023 that he only cleaned up the famously disgusting streets of San Francisco because Chinese President Xi Jinping was coming to town. (They soon went back to their normal gross, dangerous conditions).
If this does turn out to be Sabo’s handiwork, I hope there’s plenty more coming.
Editor’s Note: Gavin Newsom wants to turn America into one big version of California - a failed, overtaxed, dystopian nightmare.
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