Newsom’s ‘Democracy is under assault’ speech could turn the tables on Trump

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s address to America on Tuesday was influenced by our Zeitgeist (German words are currently strangely appropriate).

“Democracy is under attack right in front of our eyes” Said newsom during live broadcast With a California flag and the US flag in the background. “The moment we were afraid came.”

Exactly what moment does he talk about?

President Trump put sailors and national guards on the streets of Los Angeles and gave the power to put themselves everywhere. On Wednesday, a high-level military leader said that these forces could “detain the protesters, but that he did not explicitly arrested them, but despite what you see in the right-wing media, the protestor was peaceful.

However, each authoritarian ultimately faces a decisive understanding when it is necessary to apply with action to strengthen the power of their fear.

The danger of the moment when he becomes a king is that the rebellion is probably and probably effective. People wake up. While using force against its own citizens, the leader is at risk of alienating and activating supporters.

What will happen between the army and protesters in Los Angeles – which group is perceived as attackers – can probably determine what will happen in our democracy. If the army is aggressive and the protesters remain largely peaceful, Trump is at risk of losing support.

If protesters are severe, public perception can strengthen Trump further.

“Everything is dependent on the activities of these protesters – that is, they make decisions, Tom said Tom Homan, the president’s immigrant adviser.

Welcome to that full moment, America.

Kim would think that Newsom would lead to such effective way?

Steven In this society, everyone who is not a Trumpist was surprised and is still strange from the authoritarian attack of the last five months, Stek said Steven Levitsky at Harvard University.

Levitsky told me that national leaders helped people to shake this shock. Especially when fear dragged some of them to silence.

“You never know who this leader will sometimes be, and this may be the news, Lev said Levitsky, Levitsky said. “Perhaps their political ambitions are small, united with democratic opposition.”

Maybe. Since its address and A funny online attackNewsom’s access rapidly increased. Millions of people watched their address and hundreds of thousands of people followed him on Tiktok and other social media platforms. According to CNN, Google searches increased by 9,700%. I love your message or find ridiculous, it has reached – in part because it is unapologisticly net and unexpected.

“Trump and his loyalty develop on division because they allow them to get more power and make more control,” Newsom said.

This week I was on the ground with protesters, and I can say that there were few agitators and many peaceful protesters from first -hand experience. However, Trump did a perfect job to create crisis and fear by depicting events other than the control of local and state officials, and therefore needed intervention.

Mia Bloom said the Republicans need this violence to support speaking points, ”Mia Bloom said. He is an extremist expert and a professor at Georgia State University.

Violence “As after George Floyd, when rebellion, it was actually helping for the Republicans,” he said.

Levitsky said authoritarians were looking for a crisis.

“You need both a rhetorical and legally urgent situation to engage in authoritarian behavior,” he said.

Thus, Trump threw a trap with a swelling of immigration in an immigrant immigrant city to create an opportunity, and Newsom called it.

And calling him – the protesters’ danger of returning to violence, and still calling for a peaceful protest – Newsom made Trump in a precarious position where the president could not wait.

“Protest is a very risky initiative,” Levitsky said. “Most of the time, not always, but most of the time, triggers withdrawal.”

Levitsky says there are some evidence that Trump may have overrected and lost support.

A new survey conducted by the Public Religious Research Institute found that 76% of the Americans were against the military birthday parade, Trump planned plans for him at Washington DC this weekend. This includes rating more than half of Trump supporters.

A separate survey conducted by Quinnipiac University 54% of the respondents do not approve It does not confirm how it deals with immigration problems and 56% of it is deported.

Bloom warns that there is a lot of alarm about authoritarianism right now, because we still have some railing. He said that stopping too much fear could backfire for Newsom and democracy.

“The country is very polarized and … They are told with two different types of narratives, and the moment we give to the other side, a very apocalypse, a nihilistic narrative, we give them feed, we justify the worst policies.”

Some protesters drew attention to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, where soldiers placed flowers at the barrels of their weapons, and a peaceful protest action changed the perception of the public. He said, what is needed now.

Newsom was open to a peaceful protest. But at the same time it is also a mobility call at a historical bending point. Levitsky, we don’t know who or which date to remember.

“It is really important for the most privileges between us to stand up and fight,” he said. “If they don’t, the citizens will look around and ‘Well, why should I do it?’

Authorized, having leaders willing to be a target, many of them feel the danger of speaking, he said.

Because fear can spread like a virus, but courage is contagious.