Gavin Newsom

that kills faith.

And yet we see the damage that is done in the name of faith, that my faith is the only faith.

That's why many of the founders sort of gravitated toward what's called deism, particularly Thomas Jefferson.

And that is this idea that there is a supreme being, a supreme architect, divine providence, however you do it, but disinterested in the affairs of men.

And obviously making no distinction between faiths.

So Jefferson has this wonderful line, if my neighbor believes in 20 gods or no God at all, it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

I mean, just think about how much we're governed by the intolerance of the people who want to make distinctions between their correct right set of facts and someone else's.

I mean, in contemporary terms, we're talking on a day where the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on sort of a core construct.

When you talk about the Chinese Exclusion Act, its origin stories in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland, the original, forgive me, Donald Trump, I think, was Dennis Kearney, who began and ended every speech, the Working Men's Party, with the Chinese must go.

And I go down to...

Chinatown and the museums there.

And you'll see the virtual walls being built to keep the Chinese out, led to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

And obviously part of the oral arguments today in the Supreme Court were around the Wong decision in the late 1880s.

You know,

Everybody likes to say in a kind of lazy fashion that history repeats itself.

It doesn't.

No event has ever happened twice.

Ecclesiastes, which governors the Old Testament, says what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.

There's nothing new under the sun.

It means that human nature doesn't change and it superimposes itself over the seemingly random chaos of events.