Gavin Newsom wields greater power than Kathy Hochul to pose challenges for Trump, warns of potential repercussions

Pretty-boy Gov. Gavin Newsom is making his bid to lead the #Resistance — or at least to use it as an excuse to slam California’s taxpayers even more.

“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle,” thundered Newsom as he called for a special legislative session to scheme how to undermine Trump. 

Observers are calling this a transparent political stunt, and they’re right.

Newsom has his eyes on the White House and is already planning to run in the 2028 primaries; this is a way of waving the bloody shirt on abortion rights and other social issues … that Trump will do nothing to touch in Cali. 

He’s also very clearly giving a middle finger to the voters he’s supposed to represent. 

Trump improved his margin of victory in California massively over 2020, while Golden State voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, a ballot initiative to stiffen criminal penalties for drug crimes and theft, after Newsom spent months campaigning against it.

One worrying wrinkle here: California is a border state; the San Diego sector has been a hotbed of illegal crossings, even topping the list of fave spots for border-jumpers earlier this year. 

As Trump restores order at the border, it’s easy to imagine Newsom doing absolutely everything he can to ensure that illegals still pour across and stay in Cali.  

Or even working to block the wide-scale deportations Trump vows are coming. 

Maybe Newsom’s too smart for that: A canny politician, he might realize that the border was a bloodbath issue for Dems this cycle, and confine himself to largely cosmetic efforts.

But he is also a woke leftist, and his record so far — look at his efforts against Prop. 36! — shows he’s more than willing to take extreme stances that voters hate. 

Because that’s how you “save democracy” in 2024 and beyond.