In the land of liberal hypocrisy, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is king of the hypocrites. 

As anti-ICE rioters rip up parts of Los Angeles, the duplicitous Democrat is suing President Donald Trump for calling up members of the California National Guard and the Marines to restore order. Newsom, who has delusions of presidential sugar plums dancing in his leftist head, petulantly argues the president is “overstepping his authority” and “endangering the principles of our great democracy.”

An appeals court late Thursday allowed President Donald Trump, for now, to keep the California National Guard deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles, blocking a liberal lower court judge’s move just hours earlier that ordered the Trump administration to return control of the troops to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“It is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism,” California’s Gaslighter-in-Chief declared this week in a snotty press release bashing Trump’s move to secure a city governed by Marxists. Said leftists, meanwhile, have threatened that the mob violence will not stop until the federal government stop’s enforcing immigration law. 

Of course, Newsom knows a thing or two about “endangering the principles” of our great republic. He has been stepping smack dab into authoritarianism since he first cursed California by taking the office of governor in 2019.

Just ask the good folks he tormented with his series of stay-at-home orders when he extraconstitutionally seized expanded powers under the guise of the Covid “emergency.” Talk to the dozens of demonstrators arrested in May 2020 for exercising their First Amendment rights at the California State Capitol against Newsom’s vast pandemic powers. 

‘This is Tyranny’ 

As The Sacramento Bee reported at the time, the protest “was in direct violation of both Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order, designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and a CHP [California Highway Patrol] ban on protests on state property.” The governor demanded Californians follow his strict orders. Violators faced up to six months in jail and a maximum $1,000 fine. And Newsom’s state regulators issued a lot of fines for “violations” to the businesses his administration was killing in the name of public health. 

At the height of pandemic insanity, Newsom warned those protesting against his fiats must remain six feet apart and wear masks. The Nanny State executive scolded Californians who stood up against his abuse of liberties. 

“We can screw all that up, we can set all that back by making bad decisions,” he said. “We could start to see a spread again, and so that’s the only thing that will set us back.”

In the meantime, Newsom’s orders shut down so-called “non-essential” businesses, tossed people out of work, and devoured livelihoods. 

Stefanie Fetzer, a San Clemente woman who organized one of the Capitol protests, had a word for the power drunk Newsom’s orders. 

“This is tyranny,” she told the Sacramento Bee. “They didn’t have to do this. We would have been gone by now.”

“We’ve gotten to the point where the economy’s going to suffer, I have friends facing homelessness, business lost that will never recover,” she added. “People are suffering, I read something yesterday that the suicide hotline had seen an 1,800 percent increase in calls. So we know poverty kills. It’s time for us to weigh both factors now, it’s time for us to get back to work.”

The suffering had just begun.

‘Orders Were Unlawful’

Newsom’s authoritarian streak wiped out more than businesses and jobs; it dismantled first liberties at the core of this nearly 250-year-old nation. Just ask his victims at Calvary Chapel in San Jose. As dutiful Covid panic spreader the Associated Press reported, “Calvary was one of several large California evangelical churches that flouted state and local mask-wearing and social distancing rules designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during its deadliest period.” 

The church flouted state law that abusively superseded the U.S. Constitution. 

More than four years later, the church is still fighting a $1.2 million fine levied by Santa Clara County for “violating” orders long deemed unconstitutional. The case is now on appeal before the California Supreme Court. Calvary Chapel’s attorney, Robert Tyler of Advocates for Faith & Freedom, said the church originally faced more than $4 million in fines, including about $300,000 after wrongly being held in contempt of court. 

“We were able to successfully reverse the orders finding the church in contempt because the orders were unlawful,” Tyler told The Federalist in a phone interview. The court orders were unlawful because Newsom’s order banning indoor religious worship was unlawful, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in December 2020. That lawsuit, filed by Harvest Rock Church, accused the governor of discriminating against religious institutions while allowing nonreligious groups to gather limited restrictions. 

“For the governor, COVID-19 restrictions are apparently optional and penalty free. But for Churches or anyone worshipping in their own home with someone who does not live there, COVID-19 restrictions are mandatory and enforced via criminal penalties,” attorneys for the church wrote in its filing with the high court. 

Newsom is the same hypocrite, after all, who was caught on camera eating at a posh California restaurant as part of a packed dinner party in defiance of his own Covid orders. 

‘The State of Lockdown’

Newsom and his fellow liberal Big Brother hypocrites, of course, had no problem with the massive Black Lives Matter protests in the streets during the summer and fall of 2020. Like the anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles, many of the BLM “social justice” demonstrations devolved into riots. 

Tyler said Newsom’s “disregard for the rule of law” is showing once again. 

“We have a constitution that makes religious liberty our first and most important liberty. It’s the first amendment” to the constitution, he said. “The hypocrisy of Gavin Newsom along with these other politicians who are so upset about the fact that President Trump has sent in the National Guard to preserve property from destruction and looting, claiming that ‘this is not democracy. I find that to be so hypocritical when we saw four years ago this state of lockdown that was a far greater threat to our republic.”