The Biden Administration Is the Californication of the Democratic Party
California’s post-Reagan drift into the welcome arms of the corporate-friendly Democratic Party has meant a politics that looks like an elite lifestyle brand. It’s a state where social liberalism reigns, but so does staggering poverty and inequality. The Democratic Party has failed California and unless things change, it will continue to fail our nation.
California Democrat Nancy Pelosi listens to reporters’ questions in her office at the US Capitol on March 17, 2010. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Go west, old man.
In keeping with his promise to be the anti-Trump, Joe Biden is shifting the presidency’s philosophical center of gravity from South Florida to California, as the Los Angeles Times explained recently.
The proof is in the White House’s roster — breathlessly hyped as “looking more like America” — which is very much concentrated in the Golden State. Kamala Harris is vice president, Nancy Pelosi once again rules the House, and Californians run the Treasury, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Energy departments. A number of UC-Berkeley faculty members or graduates also nabbed cabinet positions or were part of Biden’s transition team.
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