California Gov. Jerry Brown, a veteran of three failed bids presidential bids, downplayed the infighting that roiled Monday’s session of the Democratic National Convention, comparing it favorably to his tussle with the Clintons nearly a quarter century ago.

The 1992 “convention was so controlled, they wouldn’t even let me talk,” Brown recalled Tuesday in an interview with the Washington Post’s James Hohmann. “This is a lovefest compared to that.”

Of course, Brown had refused to endorse Bill Clinton up to that point, and he didn’t have nearly as many as potentially disruptive delegates as Bernie Sanders brought to Philadelphia.

For all the booing Sanders supporters unleashed Monday, Brown said he expects “the vast majority” of them to back Clinton, if only to stop Donald Trump.

“No knowledgeable Democrat is complacent about Trump,” Brown said. “Trump is a force. He’s a force to be reckoned with.”

Brown wasn’t convinced that Trump’s tough stand against illegal immigrants would damage Republicans nationally, in a manner similar to California’s Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and social services to illegal immigrants and pushed Latinos into the arms of Democrats, where most of them have stayed even after the measure was overturned by a federal judge.

“I would never minimize the potency of the concern people have when their … understanding of who they are and what their community is, is being challenged,” Brown said. “And it is being challenged when we’re having massive waves of immigration as we’ve seen in Europe.”

Brown said the lesson from both the Sanders and Trump campaigns is that voters see that “things are really screwed up.”

Clinton’s job, he said, is to fix it, but doing so “takes experience, takes consensus and it takes over time retooling the machinery of government on the side of ordinary people,” Brown said. “It’s a big challenge and it’s something we all got to pull together on.”

Brown, who will address delegates Wednesday about global warming, touted his record as governor and refused to count out a Republican revival in the state after he is termed out.

“Never assume the Democrats won’t screw things up — or the Republicans,” he said. “Each side has a trajectory that if not curbed tends to run on to excess. That has kind of been my job as governor — trying to keep things in balance.”

Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435. Follow him on Twitter at Matthew_Artz.