If watching news coverage of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s melodramatic remarks on Tuesday night is giving you deja vu, you’re not alone. It really is exactly like what the dying media tried doing with Kamala Harris last year.
Newsom’s eight-minute, technical-glitch-ridden speech could have been about his administration’s efforts to quell the violent and destructive riots rocking his state since Friday, or it could have been about measures to cooperate with the White House to make illegal alien deportations more orderly, but that would have been productive. Instead, the governor —perpetually in vocal fry — titled his speech “Democracy at a Crossroads” and bemoaned the federal agents engaged in law enforcement and President Trump for, as Newsom put it, “traumatizing our communities.” And, of course, he said it was all a threat to democracy.
“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,” Newsom said. “The moment we’ve feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball to our founding fathers’ historic project.”
Other nauseating lines from Newsom’s speech:
— “He’s delegitimizing news organizations and assaulting the First Amendment.”
— “At the threat of defunding them, he’s dictating what universities can teach.”
— “Targeting law firms and the judicial branch that are the foundation of an orderly, civil society.”
— “The rule of law has increasingly given way to the rule of Don.”
Sir, what about the bonfires downtown? Democracy is at stake! A republic, if you can keep it! No one is above the law!
If I told you any of Newsom’s remarks were from some Kamala 2024 campaign speech, you’d have no doubt. It’s the exact type of corny, delusional, patronizing rot she regurgitated for months. Thinking it was over turned out to be a mistake. Democrats and the media are ready to microwave the same strategy in 2028 — except with a white man instead of a somewhat black woman.
Hellbound and Down 