Gov. Gavin Newsom made the news on Friday about his comments about the mistaken deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia while trying to make news about tariffs.

At a Central Valley press conference, Newsom answered a reporter’s question about Abrego Garcia after announcing a lawsuit over a highly unpredictable trade policy against the Trump administration. He called the debate over whether the man was a gang member “a distraction of the day.”

Chaos, including the Dem-on-Dem news cycle, continued on a holiday weekend that neither the newspaper nor the Democrats wanted. Critics debated whether Abrego Garcia and his extrajudicial deportation were indeed distracting or a constitutional crisis.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) who traveled to El Salvador and was able to speak to Abrego Garcia. Shooting back at Newsom“I think Americans are tired of elected officials and politicians, where everything is fingers in the wind,” he added, “anyone who can’t stand up to the constitution and the right to justice of proceedings is not worthy of a lead.”

Spoiler alert: I was in the production process and I was impressed that our government insisted on stopping it when it came to immigration. Of course, that’s the first step to reducing the rights of everyone.

Calling Abrego Garcia’s light-form “distraction” is completely wrong, whether it’s just a narrow question of gang membership, or, as later made clear, just a narrow question of gang membership. But what appears to be between Newsom and van Hollen is smaller than the media is playing, and some Democrats are now the most important question. Are Americans interested in the Constitution or the stock market?

Americans can hardly make up for what they worry most. Today, most people are zigzagging between fear that their life savings are disappearing right in front of their eyes and fear that their constitutional rights are in the same trash can. It’s a moment in all hands for Democrats, and there should be space to defend both the rights of Abrego Garcia (and by extension all of us) and the pushback to the fearless world trade war that will lead America to a recession.

But the controversy over Newsom’s inexplicable statement is now at the heart of democratic disparities. It’s a party of confusion that can’t decide whether to oppose an attack on democracy or whether to continue focusing on lasers on the issue of pocketbooks that appears to have finally handed over his second-term Trump.

Everyone, as there is an old proverb, it’s time to walk and chew gum.

Abrego Garcia is now somewhere in the prison in Salvador.

Maybe he started his overseas nightmare at the worst terrorist confinement centre, or in the facility where he began his deportation nightmare. Human rights observers claim that there is a history of torturehowever, he is still trapped in a caf cask scenario where he can leave him what appears to be life sentences in a foreign prison without committing a crime or listening to a judge.

Such grab and vanish justice is common in El Salvador. Three-year emergency declaration by an authoritarian leader He suspends his rights to a legitimate process and imprisons him, claiming he is cracking down on gang crimes. According to Amnesty International, there are 83,000 people.

That’s a little too close as President Trump is deported and detaining people using the same tough crime stories without evidence, but Vice President JD Vance argues that the due process is too tedious and that the US needs to be scrapped for convenience in order for it to succeed.

“What the administration says must observe a ‘legitimate process’ is to ask for questions. Which processes are functions of our resources, public interest, the status of the accused, proposed punishment, and many other factors. ” Vance wrote on social media last week. “Here’s a useful test. I’m asking people who are crying at the lack of due process exactly what they proposed to deal with Biden’s millions and millions of illegals.

Yikes. Convenience to the law.

“There’s no new due process,” UCLA professor Adam Winkler told me. “The Constitution doesn’t matter if anyone in the United States is entitled to legitimate procedures or not.”

In a more thoughtful interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen last week, Newsom called such a phenomenal law “the other side of the red line.”

“The founder never lived or died at this moment,” Newsom said. “And if you want to survive this democracy, this democratic republic, it must be called with clarity and belief, period, complete suspension.”

Therefore, Newsom and Van Hollen do not oppose the importance of Abrego Garcia’s case in the end. They cannot agree on how to reach voters best.

Most Americans really don’t know what the legitimate procedure is or what it means to democracy to lose it. But they understand that gas and groceries are expensive and that retirement savings are sinking like river bricks.

As Mike Madrid, a former Republican political consultant, said, yes, we need to walk and chew gum.

Walking, the economy of this analogy, is far more important, he said.

A recent poll has 55% of voters said they disapproved The way Trump handles the economy. Another vote by CNBC Trump’s assessment of economic performance has now been found to be the lowest ever in his political career after winning elections on economic issues.

“The fact that the Democrats are not driving tanks through that issue is illicit,” Madrid said, and he is right. The economy will win Trump in the election, and the economy could lose Republicans to the next.

Fight for Abrego Garcia’s rights?

“That’s a tough case. Because are people really defending the MS-13? Are they defending people they don’t care about in El Salvador?” Newsom said at a press conference Friday. “That’s exactly a debate [Republicans] Because they don’t want this discussion about tariffs. ”

But here, Trump’s theory of chaos becomes very effective. Those who care about democracy must fight both in the economy and in the rightful process – and more than that – because if we allow unlimited power in the administrative sector, we may not reach another free and fair election. And, of course, there is a moral obligation not to abandon Abrego Garcia.

Democrats seem to be caught up in political thinking – how to win the election – when the moment is looking for something.

Explain the ability to walk and chew gum, and why both are important to voters.