Mi tia abuela Kate In my middle years, I went to Los Angeles with my family, and when I asked her exactly fifty years later what it was like, she answered me without question: how to be bound to paradise.
No exaggeration. California was probably the most unusual place on Earth at the time.
Los Angeles became the second largest auto manufacturing center in the country, just behind Detroit.
During World War II alone, the region produced more than 300,000 aircraft and employed two thousand people in the aviation industry.
Douglas, Lockheed, Hughes, Northrop: global aerospace giants have their headquarters in Southern California. Between 1920 and 1960, the state’s population doubled.
Thousands of people came to the Golden State in search of a better future and found it. It was America de América.
A row of synth campaign tents on the streets of Los Angeles.
When I came to California at age 13, this state has always been a special place. There was a political rotation—during most of the California era, Republican governors were elected as easily as Democrats are today.
And although the Democratic Party has virtually continuously controlled the State Assembly since 1971, the natural and industrial governance of the state has absorbed bad governance as easily as a healthy organism absorbs poison in small doses.
California was still alive as it entered the twenty-first century, one of the best places in the world to live.
But the Venetian was piling on. I took a moment where I didn’t have enough health to make up for it.
Today, California is the world’s fifth-largest economy — as its leaders say with pride — but that number is a Silicon Valley-backed expectation.
Behind this shiny head, the panorama is different: middle class huya hacia Texas, Arizona, Nevada and Tennessee; companies follow the same path; the population began to shrink for the first time in the state’s history.
The streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, another symbol of the California dream, today welcome camps of poor people and drug addicts who roam the streets freely. As in an unfettered ideological laboratory, the country’s most diverse policies are implemented here.
“The streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, another symbol of the California dream, today welcome encampments of the destitute and drug addicts who roam freely”
This is not casual Gavin NewsomThe governor who presided over this deterioration with a smiling toothpaste announcement is aspiring to the presidency.
For Democrats, California is neither a mess nor a model: here they have what they want to do in the rest of the country.
And the state is not the same demographically.
California was purple (competitive, contentious) and today it is a one-party Democratic fiefdom.
Poor governance and electoral fraud are part of the explanation. But he’s just leaving.
I want to say out loud that the decline of massive immigration without integration or assimilation has always changed the electorate. The Democrats sought him out on purpose. And they stood up in amazement.
The governor’s career this year holds something out of a thousand in the sky. To appreciate this, you have to understand how California’s election system works.
There are no separate party primaries here. On June 2, everyone will be involved in what they say prime minister of the jungle (open primaries) and two primaries will pass in November. As equals, they are from the same side. And it shows Democrats face these candidates in the race.
If the vote is split between them, there is a possibility (remote but real) that two Republicans will take first and second place, leaving the Democrats out entirely.
He never forgot. That’s why it has something out of a thousand.
The Republican candidate leading the issues is Steve Hilton. Entrepreneur, Fox News anchor and British native: another European immigrant in the tradition Schwarzeneggeralbeit with a very distinctive profile.
Hilton is not a converted political actor. He was a strategic advisor David Cameron in Downing Street. You know what is controlled from the inside. Trump He said that, which is complicated in California (the president is causing intense tension among independents and that could cost them votes in November).
“A Republican victory in California would not only be an electoral triumph. It would be a signal that something is changing in the state.”
To a Republican rival, Chad WhiteHe is the sheriff of Riverside. More conventional, more arranged in the basis of the party. At the recent convention in San Diego, delegates split the cases evenly: 49% for White, 44% for Hilton, none short of the 60% needed for them. approval official.
And in the middle of it all, The Democratic favorite crumbled.
Eric Swalwellwho led questions among his party’s candidates was withdrawn on April 12 after San Francisco Chronicle to publish allegations by an ex-assistant accusing him of sexual assault. CNN met three other women. Pelosi y Schiff they told them they were off the road.
It wasn’t the first problem: the light came on years ago Christine Fang (“Fang Fang“), an agent of Chinese intelligence, cultivated it in the years when it was conceived in Dublin, financed his campaign and set up a bakery in his workshop.
Nothing to say, but the irony is too good not to mention. The congressman most insistent that Trump was an agent of a foreign power was also the one most closely employed by foreign intelligence services.
With Swalwell it was Democrats are on the fence: Ocho candidates, scattered votes, without anyone who can join the party in what the campaign is asking for.
Tom Steyera multi-millionaire who intends to be president seems like the least bad option, though without losing his enthusiasm. For a long time, Republicans have been doing what they know best in California since twenty years ago: pick and choose among them.
Because this is the biggest question for the republic scenario: ellos mismos.
A victory in California would not be just an electoral triumph. There will be signs that something is changing in the country.
To make that happen, there will be many candidates willing to talk about electoral reform (without identifying to vote for serious checks, depending on which Republican trend may evaporate in the recent past), and with a concrete vision that California has returned to who has been there for a long time.
Your mother Kate didn’t recognize her today.
*** Pablo Kleinman is communications media manager and president of the Hispanic Jewish Endowment in Miami.
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