Gavin Newsom

It's our neighbors.

This is a civil war.

We're born in violence, at least 20% overall, but in any given place, it might be a hotbed of loyalism.

They're against it.

They believe, and we don't make them enemies, they believe, quite correctly, that the British constitutional monarchy is a hell of a good form of government.

It is.

Their prosperity, the land they have, their literacy, their life expectancy, their good fortune.

And you're asking me to give this all up to support an idea that has never been tried before?

Are you out of your mind?

The thing that blows my mind, Governor, is that how many people said yes to this completely new idea.

And that it was not just the declaration and the list of injuries and usurpations, 18 of them, that the king, not parliament, was now guilty of.

It wasn't just common sense.

It wasn't just later on the American crisis.

These are the times that dry men sold the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot.

Already then they know there's a distinction between the people who love to wave the flag and then aren't there.

Yeah.

And at the end of the Declaration, we mutually pledged to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

It means something.

George Washington may have been the richest person in the country.

He certainly was for a time.