Step aside, President Trump. Move over, Congress. Apparently, the fate of our formerly sovereign Republic now rests in the well-moisturized hands of hair-gelled California Governor Gavin Newsom, the whitest-of-the-white elite, self-declared commander of the Sanctuary Resistance Forces and unofficial president of the breakaway nation of Californication.

It’s worth remembering: Gavin Newsom was elected to run California, not to cosplay as the last hope of the Union. Yet here he is, turning California’s progressive communist democrat sanctuary policies into a full-blown rebellion and acting as if ICE agents are stormtroopers and he’s the last Jedi standing between freedom and tyranny.

Yes, California’s progressive communist democrats have always supported open borders, hordes of illegal aliens, along with pushback against the enforcement of federal immigration policy. But Newsom has taken it to the next level, turning defiance into a full progressive media production, complete with soaring rhetoric, moral posturing, and approximately 300 percent more hair product than any real rebel leader should need.

In what sounded less like a gubernatorial address and more like a Star Wars villain’s monologue, Newsom recently announced… 

Ah, yes, “Democracy is next,” because nothing says democratic values like unilaterally defying federal law and then warning that other states will soon follow suit, like it’s some constitutional flash mob.

Newsom's speech resembled that of a “wartime president.” The only war, of course, is the one Gavin keeps acting out in his head, somewhere between reading Twitter mentions and choosing his next leather jacket photo op

Let’s break it down: ICE, the pesky federal agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws, did its job, conducting workplace raids. Protests followed. They started peacefully, until the usual professional progressive communist democrat agitators/activists took over: shouting, smashing, burning, and looting; and the inevitable calls to abolish everything from borders to law enforcement itself filled the airwaves.

President Donald Trump, doing what presidents tend to do when deliberately uncontrolled chaos breaks out, sent in the National Guard.

Cue Newsom, who burst onto the scene like a man auditioning for a political drama no one asked to see.

“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes. The moment we’ve feared has arrived,” he warned, dramatically, while democracy continued to function… right before our eyes.

Who Made Newsom Rebel-in-Chief?

Nobody. That’s the punchline. No one elected Gavin Newsom to lead a rebellion against lawful authorities. He was elected to run the most populous, and arguably the most mismanaged, state in the nation. Rising crime? Crippling homelessness? Sky-high costs of living? Don’t worry, he’s busy fighting ICE and quoting the Constitution like it’s open mic night at the Resistance Poetry Slam.

If you were hoping for a governor who’d address crowded freeways or overloaded power grids, sorry. You got a guy role-playing as Abraham Lincoln in a war he invented, defending a version of “democracy” that seems to begin and end with “ignore federal law if you don’t like it.”

The Hero California Deserves?

Is Newsom staging a national tour of defiance? Will there be branded T-shirts? A Spotify playlist?

According to Newsom, “Democracy is under assault,” not, of course, because mobs are flouting federal immigration laws or rioting in the streets, but because the federal government is enforcing them—the horror.

Still, to Newsom, this is all part of some grand, cinematic showdown between Good and Evil. Spoiler: In this movie, the guy violating federal law is the hero.

Perhaps we should take heed of the facts...

Newsom said this was chaotic, this was reckless, and he said that they were just trying to have an arbitrary deportation quota.

• Twelve million people came into the country illegally. That was 3 million a year. That was 250,000 per month. That was over 8,000 a day.
• They have not been able to deport more than a thousand on most days, sometimes 500.
• They would have to deport 8,000 people every single day for four years to get back where we were with 20 million illegal aliens, when Joe Biden entered office.
• So it’s not a quota. It’s an effort to stop an invasion.

~ Historian and Classicist Victor Davis Hanson 

Bottom Line

Let’s recap: ICE targets undocumented workers breaking federal immigration law. Protesters swarm the streets of LA. Trump, shockingly, responds by enforcing the law—Cue Newsom, who leaps into action with more moral outrage than an Oscar speech.

He doesn’t just disagree, he portrays the enforcement of federal immigration policy as an assault on “democracy.” Apparently, in the Newsomverse, enforcing laws you don’t like is fascism, but defying them makes you a freedom fighter.

Governor Newsom’s public opposition wasn’t just political theater. It was a statement of solidarity with illegal aliens, or as California calls them, undocumented future democrats, and those who see the Trump administration’s actions as authoritarian, even dangerous.

Whether one sees Gavin Newsom as a rebel or a defender of democratic values depends primarily on one’s view of the Trump administration and the balance of power in America.

But five things are clear:

1. Rioting, looting, arson, and assaulting individuals are not protected speech under the U.S. Constitution, no matter what a judge rules.

2. The battle over immigration, civil liberties, and state autonomy is not just a policy dispute; it’s a defining struggle over the country’s direction.

3. The congressional Democrat leaders are backing Gavin Newsom and other sanctuary state governors, proving the Democrats are a clear and present danger to America.

4. Gavin Newsom is an empty-headed progressive communist democrat clown.

5. We are so screwed.

-- Steve