California Democrats Preach ‘Affordability’ At Convention — After Raising Costs

Jon’s Latest Column For The California Post Is A Post-Mortem on Last Weekend’s Left-of-Left California Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco.

This is a caricature of Katie Porter. But she did hold up this sign. No surprise.

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The Crazy Train Pulled Into Moscone Center

This morning I have an opinion piece up in the California Post offering a post-mortem on last weekend’s California Democratic Party convention at Moscone Center — in the most iconic liberal city in America: San Francisco.

For decades now, governance in California hasn’t just been Democratic. It has been California Democratic. The home-grown variety. The most fervent progressive strain in the country. There is nothing centrist about it. Nothing moderate. When they gather in convention, it makes a Star Wars convention look subdued.

Thousands of the most ardent left-wing activists from up and down the state descended on Moscone Center. They were joined by the usual ecosystem of labor power brokers and interest groups that orbit Sacramento. Inside the hall, it was wall-to-wall anti-Trump energy.

Outside the hall, there were protests

Roughly a hundred demonstrators gathered outside Moscone urging party leaders to go even further — demanding stronger action on health care, transgender policies, and immigration protections. Some signs read “Stand up, fight back.” Others accused lawmakers of putting politics before patients. Even among Democrats, there was visible tension between activists and elected officials.

Inside, another theme surfaced quietly in conversations with delegates: younger Democrats complaining they feel unheard. Some openly said party leaders over-complicate things and are disconnected from grassroots energy. They want candidates who “relate” to them — not just résumé recitations from career politicians.

And yet in the middle of all of this — the chants, the protests, the internal generational grumbling — the word of the weekend was “affordability.”

That’s where my California Post column comes in.

In the piece, I walk through the contradiction of California Democrats preaching affordability in a state where they have held near-total governing control for a generation. I also analyze the fractured gubernatorial field, the Top Two math that has some delegates uneasy, and what the absence of Gavin Newsom says about where his priorities now lie.

You can read the full column at the California Post HERE.

You can go HERE to watch a video I did yesterday mid-convention.

And here is a sobering write up of Democratic unforced errors:

While Newsom Fiddles, California’s Gas & Oil Crisis Ramps Up with Tensions Between the US and Iran

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