Gavin Newsom

Yes, Governor, I believe in that.

I do think that the three great crises that we could identify after our founding, the Civil War, the Depression, and World War II, were the great crises.

I think we're in a fourth.

I think the existential threats are unprecedented.

In those first three crises, there were free and fair elections.

There was a peaceful transfer of power.

There was an independence of the judiciary, all of which seems in play.

And yet I think part of the, the, the sort of arrogance of the present is you think that because you're alive, um, that you must know more than those who came before us that, that somehow because we've survived, um, our situation is so much more bad or worse or great.

And, and I think that we have to, Lincoln says it in that same address, um, to Congress, he says, uh,

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

As our case is new, we must think anew, we must act anew, we must dis-enthrall ourselves, and then we can save our country.

That leads to the last best hope of Earth.

It means that you've got to just sort of say, yes, it's unprecedented, but also have faith in the American people, which is something that autocrats don't have.

They can use them.

They can play groups off one another, but they have zero faith in in the actual stuff of what it is to struggle to be human and to just, you know, in economies and families get by, you know, with with.

Opioid addictions with hard work with illness unexpected illnesses all of the things not you know that the disparity of wages I mean I made a film on baseball and in the 70s You know it was the same thing with with corporate CEOs that you know like CEO of a company made at best like eight nine times what the line guy made

And now we're talking about 800 times as much.

And so the proportionality of things, and it permits, you know, we have great articulators of that disparity.

And we sort of think as politics as a line, it's a circle.

You know, like...