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Fascist is the left’s favorite word when they need to rile up the base and shut down debate. It no longer signals a real ideology or a historical warning. It’s a trigger word, a dog whistle meant to turn political opponents into public enemies. And Gavin Newsom knows exactly what he’s doing when he uses it.
Only weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the California governor decided to throw gasoline on the fire by labeling Stephen Miller a fascist. He did it publicly on social media, casually and confidently, because this is the left’s new playbook. They are not trying to win arguments anymore. They are trying to mark people for destruction.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) September 27, 2025
Of course, he faced some pushback, but the California governor did not back down. He doubled down. Instead of clarifying or walking anything back, Newsom flooded his X feed with even more unhinged commentary. Post after post reads like a stream of consciousness from someone who has detached from reality. It is not the behavior of a serious leader. It is the behavior of a man consumed by his own bitterness and obsessed with demonizing anyone who stands in his way. Personally, I think Newsom has lost the plot entirely. His online rants are not just embarrassing for a sitting governor, they are dangerous. They normalize this fever-pitch rhetoric and tell his followers that escalation is not only acceptable but necessary.
Gavin Newsom’s fixation on Stephen Miller borders on strange. It is as if Miller lives rent free in his head, popping up every time Newsom needs a villain to rally his followers. The governor talks about him with the kind of intensity most people reserve for exes they never got over. It is political projection at its finest. A man who has presided over skyrocketing homelessness, a mass exodus of residents, and collapsing public schools somehow thinks the real threat to America is one former adviser posting online. If Newsom spent half as much energy fixing California as he does fantasizing about Stephen Miller, his state might not be in freefall.
textbook definition https://t.co/jFH3IUAM8P pic.twitter.com/W7mjUBQh7g
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) September 27, 2025
I guess he thinks it looks nicer if he puts it in a cartoon? Someone get Disney’s lawyers on the phone.
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) September 27, 2025
And the proof of how dangerous that game is can be found in a single phrase. Hey fascist, catch! Those words were etched onto a bullet linked to the political assassination of Charlie Kirk just weeks ago. It was not a coincidence but a deliberate message, proof that this kind of rhetoric does not stay confined to headlines or social media posts. Instead, it seeps into the minds of people looking for an excuse to act.
It is not hard to picture an intern at IBT hunched over a screen, ordered to dig through Stephen Miller’s entire X feed in search of something to use against him. And apparently, they found a post where Miller himself used the word fascist. But context matters. He was describing behavior and ideology, not slapping the label on a single individual to turn them into a public enemy.
The irony of the controversy is not lost on many observers. Stephen Miller has long been known for throwing around the term ‘fascist’ himself. In April 2022, he wrote on X: ‘If the idea of free speech enrages you — the cornerstone of democratic self-government — than I regret to inform you that you are a facist.’ In March 2024, he claimed: ‘The Democratic Party is now a Facist party. Using corporate and government power to punish dissent and dissenters.’
So it is not the first time Miller has deployed this label; what is different now is the political escalation that followed. – International Business Times (UK)
Stephen Miller is not wrong. If you are outraged by free speech, then guess what?
Miller did not single out one individual and label them a fascist, which is exactly what Gavin Newsom did. And when that kind of language is directed at one person, it becomes far more dangerous because it paints a target on their back.
Some lawmakers are no longer willing to shrug this off. Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden blasted Newsom’s remarks, even suggesting the governor’s rhetoric had crossed a legal line. He argued that labeling a private citizen a fascist in a volatile environment could amount to incitement. That might sound extreme, but so is the moment we are in.
The reaction from Republican circles was swift and fierce. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace condemned the post as ‘violent rhetoric,’ while Wisconsin Republican Derrick Francis Van Orden went further, characterising the wording as criminal and demanding legal action.
Van Orden invoked 18 U.S. Code § 2331, claiming the statement meets the legal threshold of domestic terrorism. ‘At this point, this reaches the threshold of domestic terrorism,’ he wrote. ‘This is no longer “inflammatory”, it is criminal.’ He added pointedly: ‘No one is above the law, @CAgovernor.’
Van Orden attached a screenshot of the legal statute, citing the section that says domestic terrorism covers activities intended to influence government policy via intimidation or coercion. – IBTimes
The real story here is not that the left uses ugly language. It is that they no longer believe their opponents are even worthy of debate. Fascist is not just an insult; it is a way of saying that a person’s ideas do not deserve to exist in the public square. It is meant to strip away legitimacy before a conversation can even begin. Once that label is attached, everything else becomes easier: silencing, censoring, deplatforming, even violence. It is not about argument anymore. It is about erasure.
And that is the point. The left does not want to win hearts and minds. It wants to make sure dissenting voices never enter the conversation in the first place. That is why Gavin Newsom’s words matter. Because if they can convince enough people that those who disagree are not just wrong but also dangerous, then online mobs start to feel justified in physical attacks.
What we are witnessing goes deeper than name calling. It is a fundamental shift in how politics works and how power is kept. This is no longer about persuasion or even about winning elections. It is about shrinking the range of acceptable opinions until only one worldview is allowed to exist. That is how free societies fall apart, not in one big collapse but through slow, deliberate conditioning that teaches people to fear disagreement and hate those who speak it.
featured image original graphic by Darleen Click
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