MAKING CALIFORNIA MEXICO AGAIN
“No barriers between California and Mexico” for leftist Democrats.
January 18, 2018
Lloyd Billingsley
After the November 2016 election, California governor Jerry Brown, a three-time presidential loser, denounced the victorious Donald Trump and pledged that the Golden State would go its own way, perhaps even launching its own satellites. Brown’s attorney general Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running mate, also defies the federal government.
Senate boss Kevin de León, which is not the name on his birth certificate and voter rolls, authored the state’s sanctuary legislation that has made false-documented illegals, even criminals, a privileged, protected class. In early January, after the legislation kicked in, California’s Assembly speaker Anthony Rendon took things to a new level.
“There is no sensible place for barriers between California and Mexico,” said Rendon, heading south with fellow Democrats on a four-day mission to Mexico. “This trip will send a message that California resists isolation and is willing to step up and work with Mexico if the federal administration abdicates that responsibility.”
So contrary to the “Calexit” crowd, which seeks independence, Rendon wants to hook up the state with Mexico. In that cause, he touts the “historically linked governments” of Mexico City and Sacramento. The statement was not a departure from the vision of speaker Rendon, who earned a PhD in political science at UC Riverside.
On November 9, 2017, one day after the election of Donald Trump, Rendon and de Leon said in a statement: “Today, we woke up feeling like strangers in a foreign land, because yesterday Americans expressed their views on a pluralistic and democratic society that are clearly inconsistent with the values of the people of California.”
California “is – and must always be – a refuge of justice and opportunity for people of all walks, talks, ages and aspirations – regardless of how you look, where you live, what language you speak, or who you love.” After several paragraphs of anti-Trump boilerplate comes the key line:
“California was not a part of this nation when its history began, but we are clearly now the keeper of its future.”
Speaker Rendon doubtless knows that Maine, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Louisiana and more than two dozen other states were “not part of this nation when its history began.” The focus on California reflects the belief, common among ruling-class Democrats, that California is part of Mexico. |
