All of these "Would you vote for Newsom if he's the nominee?" "gotchas" are just this:

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.

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The president is not a king. Make them actually enforce this. Force them to actually have to do the work instead of using fear and intimidation. Do not follow unjust and immoral laws
Be ungovernable. We will outlast and outlive these bastards.