Gavin Newsom

Let's not do that.

And then from 1870 till 1920, it's wide open, except for, as you know, the Chinese Exclusion Act attempting to regulate the inflow of Asian peoples to the United States.

And then in the 1920s, the door slammed shut.

The Johnson Reed Immigration Act in 24 sets quotas.

So it's going to make it impossible for us to respond to the Holocaust with only the, even though we let in more people than any other sovereign nation, I have to say sovereign because of the number of people who immigrated to Palestine, but we could have saved so many more human beings if we weren't imprisoned, locked into this straitjacket of Johnson Reed.

And then you'd be making a dent in the 6 million number that we throw out without thinking.

There are 9 million Jews in Europe in 1933.

And by 1945, two out of three are dead.

That's another way of saying 6 million.

But if we knock that down by a million or 2 million or 3 million, which we could have easily done, 4 million.

think where we'd be in terms of our own greatness and our own thing.

But those impulses towards anti-Semitism, the impulses to make a them of somebody who's Catholic or black or female or different are always going to be part of the complexion.

And as difficult as it is to, and I don't need to tell you, to manage a modern democracy,

Um, there's no other, you know, and the temptation is to regulate it, you know, and say, oh, it's got to be this one way.

We can only have this superficial history.

There's no better, better form of government as chaotic as it is, as uncertain.

The, the great jurist, learned hand, I mean, governor, could there ever be a better name for a judge than learned hand said, said liberty is never being too sure you're right.

And there's a sort of sense now as we try to impose our will on chaotic events that the opposite of faith must be doubt.

No, doubt is central to faith.

The opposite of faith is certainty.