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Newsom says ‘democracy is under assault’

California governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a blistering address against the Trump administration, warning democracy is “under assault before our eyes”.

Newsom said president Donald Trump was taking a “wrecking ball to our founding fathers’ historic project” .

This is a president who has declared a law on history, culture, science and knowledge itself.

Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists, they thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control.

Newsom warned the situation unfolding in California was just the beginning.

This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes, this moment we have feared has arrived.

Newsom urged the public to become the “antidote” to the fear and division being sowed by the administration.

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