Posted on 07/15/2026 10:35:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
alifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is the “gravest threat to American democracy” as he addressed voters ahead of November's midterm elections.
Newsom, viewed as a possible Democratic presidential candidate for 2028, has repeatedly clashed with Trump and his Administration over a range of political and legal disputes.
"If you disagree with him, he tries to prosecute you. If you beat him, he calls you illegitimate. This is not normal in a democracy," Newsom said in a social media post Monday night. "From Georgia to California, we must stop him."
Newsom hit the campaign trail in Nevada last week in an effort to boost Democrats in the midterms.
Democrats hope to regain control of the House and Senate, both of which are currently held by Republicans. A Democratic victory in the House would restore the party's ability to more aggressively scrutinize the Trump Administration, including through congressional investigations.
When contacted for comment by TIME, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Newsom is “the worst governor in America.”
Newsom's latest remarks follow a filmed address he delivered during America's 250th anniversary celebrations.
In a speech that lasted more than eight minutes, Newsom argued the "nation’s democratic promise is under threat" from what he described as a “corrupt and unstable President.”
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While people like Newsom want to takeaway everything you have
The projection and hypocrisy of these vermin is astonishing.
No Gav, he’s the gravest threat to the American Democratic People’s Republic.
Oh my, example number 445,628 of pathetic Democrat calling the
kettle black.
Gavin projecting again.
Speaking about “threats to Democracy” how about sabotaging Sanders when he was leading in the primary? Putting forth a 2024 candidate who didn’t get a single delegate? Ignoring Maine voters who put their choice forth?
Pot...kettle...black
“If you beat him, he calls you illegitimate.”
How old was this greaseball during 2000/2001?
… (I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …I should hope that the President is a threat to socialism.
— Woodrow Wilson
Hey - we’re a Constitutional Representative Republic ... we’re not a democracy ... I’m sure there’s room for you in fourth grade in CA .... or maybe not.
Leave the big thoughts to the adults, Newdumb.
Folks, these commie Democrats do not care about anything but power. The way they get power is to undermine Western civilization and everything that made it succeed beyond anything else in history.
They have undermined the family, faith, community, etc.
They are now importing people who do not want to share in the success of Western culture but want to change it into their culture. Muslims want Sharia and Hispanics want cartels.
This importation is with the purpose of undermining native citizens and legal immigrants who are assimilating. The “victim” mentality is used to convince a large portion of the citizenry to hate their own culture and accept the undermining culture.
But all this is for the sole purpose of an eventual Marxist Revolution or Culture Revolution.
The left knows people will not accept communism because Western culture is stronger and more attractive.
So, they need to undermine Western culture, destroy it and then replace it with communism.
This is openly discussed by many members of the Democratic Socialists of America and the candidates who are winning public office.
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.Yes; there is a difference. And the difference makes it clear that democracies are totalitarian, and indeed exactly what Woodrow Wilson said they are—one and the same as socialism.
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966 (video version)
Again, we are a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Just another agitating poofter.
So, since Trump was elected through a democratic process, democracy itself is a threat to democracy!
Did I get that right?
Democracy, as they define it, is nothing more than mob rule...................
I’m not fond of the “Trump got more votes than we did so he’s a threat to Our Democracy” argument.
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