Gavin Newsom

And you can't go back.

You have to go forward.

You got to go forward.

When you speak of, you know, patriotism, we talk of nationalism, but what does patriotism mean to you?

How do you, what's the sort of core essence of patriotism?

Well, if you deal with American patriotism first, because I'm not that, you know, there's complicated relationships to British patriotism.

We call ourselves patriots and the British call us rebels.

Never once.

Said Patriot because Patriot meant something, you know, something different in Britain, and they weren't going to ascribe us any other motives, even when they were surrendering the British soldiers and the German soldiers were forbidden to look at the Americans, only the French were worthy of their attention.

We were still just a rabble.

And they were so humiliated at having the greatest military power on earth in the most far-flung empire on earth had to admit that they had just lost to this ragtag.

But who would have thought, a German Hessian, Johann Ewald said, who would have thought 100 years ago that out of this multitude of rabble would arise a people who could defy kings?

So if you accept an American form of patriotism just as a way for us to have a conversation for a few seconds, then embedded in is a sense of our own exceptionalism, which is reasonable.

Lincoln says in his address to Congress in what we'd call the State of the Union in 62, in the middle of the Civil War, just given the Emancipation Proclamation, it won't go into effect for a few weeks, but he said, we're the last best hope of Earth.

He saw that.

And I think Americans imbibe that and have a feeling in the list of accomplishments that I made across time and missing half of them are spectacular.

But if you are the best, if you are the goat of countries, do you think Tom Brady said after he won the first, well, now I can just rest on my laurels.

There was a kind of almost furious self-sacrifice

involvement, that is to say self-reflection, Socratic, know yourself.

There's an incredible criticism.