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Gavin Newsom: “Trump wanting to bring us back to a pre1960s world. That's…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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FULL INTERVIEW: Gov. Newsom Launches Fierce Attack on Trump, Talks U.S. Democracy, Future, AI | AC1N

Published | Video Starts at 37:48

And so I just, I feel like we talk about forces of transformation versus the forces of restoration. Thank you, Bronstein, for coining that phrase. And that's really the dialectic. Trump wanting to bring us back to a pre1960s world. That's what's happening in real time. We saw with LGBTQ rights, saw women's rights. Now we're seeing it with civil rights and voting rights. They want to bring us back to a pre1960s world. (37:48–37:53)

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Asserts that Trump is attempting to revert societal progress to pre-1960s norms.

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