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California Democrats: Why Do They Hate Women and Black People So Much?

Posted on | March 6, 2024 | 3 Comments

Perhaps readers will recall the identity-politics argument Democrats offered during the Obama era: “Vote for us, or you’re racist!” Then in 2016, with Hillary Clinton as their candidate, the Democrats’ argument became, “Vote for us or you’re sexist!” But now we look at the California Senate primary, where both progressive “rising star” Katie Porter and long-term congresswoman Barbara Lee were on the ballot, and instead, California Democrats chose white male Adam Schiff. NBC News:

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey will advance to the general election in the hotly contested California Senate race, NBC News projects.
That means Democratic Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, who also ran for the seat, will be shut out of the general election. The progressives will also vacate their House seats at the end of the term.
Under California’s rules, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation.
In the final stretch of the race, the battle grew ugly between Schiff and Porter, the top-polling Democrats in the race. Schiff cultivated his national profile by battling former President Donald Trump as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Porter, a populist who flipped a former GOP-held district in 2018, ran on a platform of taking on corporate power and addressing working class economic needs like the cost of child care.
Schiff, who led in many polls in the run-up to the contest, has sought to lock out Porter by running ads elevating Garvey in the hope that he will be his opponent in the fall. Schiff’s Democrats are favored to win the general election in the solidly blue state.
By facing Garvey, Schiff will avoid a contentious and expensive intraparty fight this fall. Garvey has run a bare-bones campaign.

In fact, Garvey barely campaigned at all. He’s a famous former baseball star of the Los Angeles Dodgers and if, somehow between now and November, California voters decide to kick their addiction to electing Democrats, Garvey would be a non-controversial alternative.

Meanwhile, the question remains, why have Democrats suddenly abandoned the identity-politics formula that they used as a weapon to attack Republicans? If, given the choice, Democrats in California prefer the white male Schiff over the black female Barbara Lee by more than a four-to-one margin, what does that tell us? I’d say it tells us Democrats are a bunch of lying hypocrites. But we already knew that.



 

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