Editorial: Newsom’s Desperate Screed Proves the Left Fears Trump’s Return 2028

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has once again emerged from his failing state to lecture the rest of the nation. In a recent outburst, he branded Donald Trump “the most corrupt president in American history” and issued a frantic call for Americans to “wake up” at the possibility of Trump running again in 2028. It was not a statesman speaking. It was a desperate man, the face of a faltering movement, projecting his own failures onto the one political figure the Left has never been able to destroy.

Let us be clear: if Trump were truly finished, if MAGA movement were truly dying, Gavin Newsom would not need to shout. He would not need to warn. He would not need to plead. His panicked tone tells us more than his words ever could. What we saw was fear — fear that Trump’s America First movement is not only alive but thriving, fear that Americans have not forgotten the prosperity, safety, and pride they enjoyed under Trump, and fear that the Left’s grip on power is slipping away.

Newsom, of all people, has no standing to lecture America on corruption or leadership. This is the same man who enforced suffocating lockdowns on California’s small businesses while enjoying $350 dinners with lobbyists at the French Laundry. The same man whose policies have driven working families out of his state in record numbers, leaving behind tent cities, rampant crime, and a shattered middle class. The same man who presides over the nation’s highest poverty rate while living in comfort and luxury. And he dares to call Donald Trump corrupt? Such accusations are not only laughable; they are insulting to the intelligence of the American people.

What truly alarms Newsom is not corruption, but competition. He knows that despite years of coordinated media smears, weaponized investigations, and relentless lawfare, Donald J. Trump remains the most powerful political figure in America. He knows that Trump speaks directly to working men and women who have been abandoned by the political class. He knows that Trump’s rallies continue to overflow with patriotic Americans, while Joe Biden can scarcely gather a handful of supporters. And he knows that if Trump ever decides to seek a third term, the people — not the pundits, not the donors, not the media elites — will decide the outcome.

Newsom’s cry of “Wake up, America!” is therefore not a warning to the public but a plea to his own faltering party. He sees Democrats hemorrhaging support among blue-collar workers, Hispanic families, and once-reliable constituencies. He sees the country waking up to the failures of Bidenomics: grocery bills out of control, gas prices surging, wages stagnant, and the American Dream slipping further from reach. He sees an open border flooding our towns with drugs, crime, and human suffering. He sees international chaos, wars raging, and America’s enemies emboldened. And he knows the contrast with the Trump years is devastating for his party.

Projection has become the Left’s only weapon. They accuse Trump of corruption while ignoring the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. They attack Trump for “undermining democracy” while they themselves weaponize federal agencies to silence dissent and persecute political opponents. They scream about Trump being a “threat to America” while their own policies erode the very foundations of this Republic — our economy, our sovereignty, and our freedoms.

But here is the truth: America has already woken up. The people see the lies. They see the hypocrisy. They see the contempt that elites like Gavin Newsom have for them. And they are demanding something different. They are demanding strength, sovereignty, and pride in their nation again. That is why Trump remains the central figure in our politics, no matter how loudly his enemies howl.

Gavin Newsom’s unhinged rant proves only one thing: the ruling class is terrified. Terrified that their grip is slipping, terrified that the America First movement cannot be killed, and terrified that the people are ready to take back their country.

So yes, Governor, America is awake. But it is not waking up to your empty warnings. It is waking up to the reality that your globalist, big-government agenda has failed. And when the people decide their future once again, it will not be your panicked screams they remember. It will be the prosperity, security, and pride they knew under President Donald J. Trump.