Gavin Newsom

I mean if you if you're making a blood and soil argument to me here Just you're gonna say this is the Native American story, right?

because if anybody has six or seven hundred generations of experience to our nine or ten and

It's native peoples.

And California, as you correctly pointed out, has an unbelievably shameful period where you have essentially state-sponsored genocide.

People were given a bounty.

But, you know, we have this...

And this responsibility to be self-critical, to be self-improving, to if we're going to say we're the greatest, then we have to live up to that.

And that requires an incredible amount of self-examination, which you find autocrats do not want to participate in.

To do that would be to admit a mistake.

To do that would be to say there's room for me to improve.

To do that is to apologize.

To do that is to be sympathetic.

To do that is to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.

And that's what people are doing, you know, as they are now.

There's a kind of muscular mentality

patriotism that I'm beginning to sense coming.

And it's not a Democrat or Republican thing.

It's go, wait a second, I did not sign up for this.

I signed up for something else.

Yes, I don't agree with you about this taxes or that or whatever it might be.