California Governor Gavin Newsom is playing a dangerous game—one part gaslighting, one part constitutional ignorance, and all parts political theater.

After violent anti-ICE riots swept through Los Angeles and now San Francisco—complete with federal agents injured, cars torched, and highways blocked by destructive insurrectionists flying the flags of other nations—President Trump exercised his clear constitutional authority and federalized portions of the California National Guard under Title 10.

Newsom’s response? He called—completely lacking any hint of circumspection—the deployment “unlawful” and “a direct assault on state sovereignty”. He even labeled it “purposefully inflammatory.”

That’s not just wrong—it’s nearly laughable, save that it actually gives aid and comfort to those wreaking havoc in the streets of his state. And it’s revealing. When a governor refuses to do his duty, he doesn’t get to cry foul when the president steps in to do it for him.

In fact, it’s the governor’s rhetoric that’s inflammatory. Far from restoring calm and control, it’s throwing fuel on the fire.

Let’s be clear: the president’s authority to nationalize the Guard is not new, novel, or remotely in question.

Here’s why Newsom is wrong on the........

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