2/27/2018 - Arthur Schaper Townhall.com
House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi has promised everything she can for the young illegal aliens and
her increasingly restive left-leaning caucus. The House members are grousing
privately about how their leader is ruining their brand across the country. As
for the illegal aliens and their activist enablers, they overwhelmed one of her
press conferences in San Francisco. They badgered her US Senate colleagues,
including Chuck Schumer by protesting outside of his home in New York State.
Two weeks ago, Pelosi stood for 8 hours to demand that a clean DREAM Act be
attached to the latest budget-spending bill.
Nothing happened.
Meanwhile, since 2016
the Democratic Party has moved further left than anyone would have anticipated
since 2016. They will embrace every letter in the LGBTQAI etc. list, they want
to repeal the Second Amendment, abolish the First, get rid of the United States
Constitution. They pretty much want to resurrect Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin
and have them both run for President/Vice-President in 2020. Unless they can
get Che Guevara and Mao Ze-Dong for diversity’s sake, then they will go for
that tag team.
Dan Lipinski, a
pro-life Democratic Congressman from Illinois, has not gotten an endorsement
from the National Party. He also faces a stiff primary challenge from the Left.
Republicans might have another pick-up opportunity in Illinois.
There is no better
battleground state for the complete Communist-ization of the Democratic Party
than California, where regressive leftists are stuck between overrunning the
Democratic Party apparatus, or starting their own Berniecrat revolution to
counter the corporatist Hillary Clinton wing of the party. They want free
college for anyone. The Berniecrats are pushing Medicare for all (and who will
pay for it? Mexico?!). They want to divest from oil, they want everyone driving
in soybean-powered vehicles, living in greenhouse enclaves. And let’s not
forget the perennial stream of foreign nationals pouring across the border,
treated better than our veterans and vetted far less than …
Last year’s California
Democratic Party convention was a hate-fest of corruption charges and curse
words. Retired chairman John Burton resorted to repeated F-bombs and middle
fingers. The election for next California Democratic Party chairman came down
to a 60-vote margin between progressive populist outsider Kimberly Ellis and
corporate establishmentarian Eric Bauman.
Bauman won the battle,
but the war for the California Democratic Party’s heart and soul has only
deepened. Bernie-crats are crying foul louder than ever. Their precious push
for single-payer healthcare, full-on sanctuary state status is running
smack-dab into big business interests and lobbying firms who play both sides of
the aisle for wealth. The only thing that unifies California Democrats right
now is their vicious hatred of Trump, and even on that point they are
disagreeing! To impeach or not impeach? Should they invest efforts to secede
from the union? How about breaking up the state of California?
The 2018 California
Democratic Party convention was deeply chaotic, as well, opening in San Diego
with multiple candidates contesting, vying for the much-coveted Democratic
Party endorsements for different offices. The first major shock: US Senator
Dianne Feinstein, the Grande Dame of California liberal politics, not only failed
to capture the party delegation’s support, but actually lost to State Senate
President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon, and neither one of them hit the 60% threshold,
which means no endorsement. De Leon needed the party nod more than Feinstein.
Still, her woman card and length of experience, plus hatred of firearms,
couldn’t push her over the top. This is disturbing. DiFi is not left wing
enough! Scary thought.
The other contested
statewide races offered shocking results (and refreshing hope for Republicans)
going forward. Incumbent Attorney General Xavier Becerra is facing termed-out
insurance commissioner Dave Jones. He received more delegate support than
Becerra, yet neither one got the endorsement, either. Incredible. The
anti-establishment strain in the California Democratic Party is flexing muscle,
much to its own hurt. The delegates’ vote for Governor was even more
intriguing, showing an incredible four-way divide. Lieutenant Governor Gavin
Newsom won the most delegates at 39%, followed by State Treasurer John Chiang
with 30%, former Superintendent of Schools Delaine Eastin with 20%, and then
finally former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa with 9%. Tony Villar was scraping
the bottom of the barrel, most likely because he has tried the hardest to hue a
consistent, more centrist message, much as Loretta Sanchez attempted in the US
Senate race against Kamala Harris. It’s not working with Democratic operatives,
however.
In fact, this stifling
of the official party endorsement happened for all contested statewide races and
a number of Congressional seats targeted by the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee. The Democratic path to retaking the House runs through
California’s Central Valley and Southern California region. Most of the
targeted House Seats are in Southern California, and some of the Republican
incumbents (Royce, Issa) have announced their retirements, mostly from a
combination of term limits as committee chairmen as well as increasingly
menacing odds from Democratic challenges targeting their seats.
There are so many
Democrats jumping in, however, that liberal operatives fear that two
Republicans could slide into the Top Two, denying Democrats their coveted
chances at a House majority. Delegates could not unify and grant a 60% delegate
threshold for one candidate running in those seats. It will be certainly
interesting to see what happens June 5th, 2018.
All eyes are on
California, that’s for sure. A continued determination of progressive-leftist
Democratic dominance will signal more divisive politicking between the Left
Coast and the White House. If Republicans manage to push statewide contenders
into the general election contest, and then hold onto key House Seats, then
Democratic hopes of stifling the President’s agenda will hit another wall, and
we can expect not just a resurgence of MAGA energy across the country, but a
massive realignment of national party politics, with the Democratic Party
turning into a defunct, regionalized rump of its former self.
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