In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, the California governor slammed the GOP-controlled Congress and the Supreme Court for bowing to Trump.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he’s “deeply confident” that California voters this week will approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redraw congressional maps on a partisan basis ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

In a wide-ranging interview, the California governor slammed the president’s push for mid-decade redistricting efforts in Republican states across the country, accusing the president of “rigging” next year’s congressional election and warning that Trump “is not screwing around.”

“He’s changing the rules. He’s rigging the game because he knows he’ll lose if all things are equal,” Newsom told Welker. “He did not expect California to fight fire with fire.”

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    Child steps in to state they have no intentions of doing anything to curb advancing fascism in America and to let us know they have no concept of what fascism is because they consider a party that clearly is not fascist to be fascist alongside an actual fascist party.

    Keep living in your parent’s home forever. You won’t survive on your own. You don’t have what it takes.

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      that clearly is not fascist

      Lol, right. The people who were actively supporting genocide, holding alleged migrants in concentration camps, increasing the already bloated military budget to an all-time high, and trampling our rights with the continued use of mass surveillance, “clearly not fascist.”

      Even if they weren’t, where the fuck do you think Trumpism came from? The status quo produced him and continuing to sleepwalk towards decline while shutting out any actual leftist vision makes fascism inevitable. The only possibility of preventing it is by forcing the democratic party to change, or replacing it altogether, even if it means making a “tough decision” and accepting the risks of a Trump presidency. Tactically, as well as morally, I made the correct decision and I will stand by that until the day I die.

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        So in your childlike mind you believe we’d be in the same situation, experiencing the same set of circumstances, whether Republicans or Democrats won?

        I’m not even sure what to say to that kind of concentrated stupidity.

        I made the correct decision and I will stand by that until the day I die.

        Idiots usually stand by mistakes without admitting fault. That’s how they remain idiots.

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          we’d be in the same situation, experiencing the same set of circumstances, whether Republicans or Democrats won?

          Yes, we would be. Just on a different time scale, perhaps, but the conclusion is inevitable either way. The only chance of averting that conclusion is by demanding an alternative.

          Idiots usually stand by mistakes without admitting fault. That’s how they remain idiots.

          I won’t admit fault when I’m correct, that doesn’t make me an idiot.