The Fox News interview had a confrontational tone.
The difference between the candidate of chaos defeated in 2020 and the unabashed Mussolini wannabe in 2024 is the ever greater radicalization of Trump voters and the normalization of lying by Fox News and its imitators.
What is Newsom after by taking part in such a spectacle?
The political impact of social media is beyond doubt.
'The Big Lie' that Donald Trump released into the world about the lost election remains alive and well in the parallel universe.
For the first time in a long time, it looks like political change does not have to go only in the wrong direction.
Yet the Dominion victory over Fox is hardly going to transform our devalued political culture.
The sacked Fox News host was one figurehead of a misinformation industry that has reshaped right-wing politics across the world.