A Word from Gavin Newsom
Distributed to a FOX News audience, Newsom's earlier speech to Californians is adapted as an outreach to all voters. Bernie and Pete would approve. One worthy goal: peeling maga away from the felon.
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"... Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting the most vulnerable. But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists thrive on division because it allows them to consolidate power and exert even greater control. If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe.
We are in a perilous moment. We have a sitting president who believes he is bound by no law, including our Constitution. In just over 140 days, he has fired government watchdogs that could hold him accountable for corruption and fraud. He’s declared war on culture, on history, on science, and on knowledge itself. Databases are disappearing, archives are being raided, and universities are being told what they can teach. The judicial branch and the rule of law are under siege. Journalists and news organizations are targets.
This is about far more than L.A. It’s about more than California. This is about all of us – it’s about you.
When Donald Trump asserted blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation. California may be first, but it won’t be the last. Other states are next. Democracy is next.
Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said it best: "In a democracy, the most important political office is that of the private citizen." Not the office of the president, nor of the governor. But it is you, the people, who are most important. It is your voice that should be loudest...you are the antidote to that fear and anxiety.
What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence.
Do not give in to him. Do not let him win. If we stand together, as neighbors, as communities, as states, we will win."