The California Caliphate Has a Brave New Caliph
The shrinking of the ISIL Caliphate from the size of Britain to the size of London’s Hyde Park is a military triumph worthy of celebration, but it belies an uncomfortable reality: beneath the rubble of al-Baghdadi’s Islamic State there remains the Islamic state of mind that spawned it -- and will mutate to spawn again in one deadly form or another.
And so it is with California, at least to every defender of individual, religious, and economic freedoms. Like the current Islamic State, it’s not so much a place as it is a crusading ideology -- a brave new spiritual caliphate with a brave new caliph: Gavin Newsom.
But this caliph is not your typical leftist lodestar, nor is he brave in the dystopian sense. He’s a Jesuit-trained thinker who's brave enough to set himself above the crowded constellation of presidential hopefuls trying to outshine each other with ever more generous promises of governmental gifts.
Newsom knows better, because he knows that the national electorate -- even the Democratic electorate -- is smarter than that. And in due time this former “business-friendly progressive” will become his party’s brightest light. The all-but-socialist agenda he outlined in his gubernatorial campaign will be all but forgotten, as he morphs back into a mainstream liberalism designed to attract the widest swath of voters possible.
Gavin Newsom is the consummate politician, and like al-Baghdadi’s somber speeches and black-on-black style, the new governor’s problem-solver polemics and dazzling persona are straight out of central casting: the telegenic good looks of a Kennedy, the optimism of a Bush ‘41, the faux earnestness of a Bill Clinton and, best of all, a record of private-sector success that will blunt center-right criticism.
Of course, like most white leaders of the left, he’s enjoyed a safe and privileged home life, raising his four children in the rich and 91% white enclave of Kentfield, California, far from the huddled masses he champions. And like al-Baghdadi, Newsom continues to use Middle East oil money -- courtesy of the Getty family in his case -- to fuel his entrepreneurial enterprises, while miraculously retaining his bona fides as an “environmental justice” warrior.
Democrats just don’t seem to care about his hypocrisies except, that is, for the far left. Like a lapsed jack Mormon, Newsom is seen by California’s Chomskyites as a “jack jihadi,” especially now that he’s downsizing their recurring dream of building the nation’s fastest and largest high-speed rail system, a classic Democratic patronage project plagued by cost overruns and mismanagement that could have tripled its original price tag to more than $100 billion.
Newsom can afford the blowback, however, because his eyes are on a bigger prize, and tacking toward the center, as every good Hyannisport sailor knows, is necessary to win a national election, especially the presidency in 2024.
Why 2024 instead of 2020? Because he’s not ready and neither is the Democratic Party.
Newsom had to wait patiently -- as mayor of San Francisco and then as lieutenant governor -- for California’s revered ayatollah, Jerry Brown, to lay down the terrible swift sword he used to decapitate federal immigration laws, radically raise carbon emission standards, hike tax rates for the wealthy up to another 32 percent, promote a $400 billion-per-year single-payer health care system, enact the most restrictive gun ownership statutes in the nation, and sign into law a bill forbidding faith-based colleges and universities to act on many of their religious tenets should any of their students receive tuition assistance from the State.
In those eight years Brown, along with his Democrat-dominated legislature, succeeded in making California the American left’s “shining city on a hill.”
No doubt that helped Newsom make the calculation that the governorship of California would be more politically valuable than a Senate seat, garnering him both the liberal media’s adulation and the executive experience he’ll tout to make the strongest case possible for being the nation’s chief executive in 2024.
As for his party’s diehard leftist message in 2020 -- it will be a suicide bombing that Newsom knows will only reinforce President Trump’s characterization of Democrats as jackbooted collectivists hell-bent on destroying America’s vibrant economy, traditional values, and personal liberties -- to wit, “Venezuela on steroids.”
Sober strategist that he is, Newsom will also make sure that he adds to his governance just enough Clintonesque triangulation to produce a track-record of “common sense progressivism” that will appeal to independent voters in battleground states, the key to winning the presidency in 2024.
Until he secures that Oval Office territory, however, he’ll keep the black flag of socialism under lock and key, mindful of another uncomfortable reality: that the clash of civilizations that most threatens us today is not coming from the Muslim world. It’s coming from our own hearts and minds, and it’s not simply dysfunction or polarization or gridlock.
It’s a dogma-eat-dogma holy war between two theologies whose faithful are as steadfast in their beliefs as Sunnis and Shiites and whose visions of America are just as irreconcilable -- from abortion to immigration to free speech and religious freedom to energy policy, tax policy, and capitalism itself.
With 60% of Americans entrenched on either side of this great divide, it will take a masterstroke by a master politician to convince the malleable middle of the electorate that there is still hope for our hopelessly contentious country.
Gavin Christopher Newsom knows that he will be that predominant politician, that accommodation avatar, that sincerest of shape-shifters who can bring pragmatism back to America’s politics and the presidency back to a confused and conflicted Democratic party.
For him it’s not a question of "if." It’s kismet.
Timothy Philen is an opinion writer and author of Harper & Row/Lippincott’s You CAN Run Away From It!, a satirical indictment of American pop psychology.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-binder-californias-surrender-to.html
In 2013, California lawmakers passed legislation
that allowed illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses if they can prove to
the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) their identity and state residency. The
plan was one of the largest victories to date by the open borders lobby.… JOHN BINDER –
BREITBART.com
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MAXINE WATERS and HISPANDERING GAVIN NEWSOM….
MOVES CLOSER TO FINAL ANNEXATION BY MEXICO
DE FACTO CITIZENSHIP PER LA RAZA:
NO TEST, NO BACKGROUND CHECKS
ON CRIMINALITY, NO BACK TAXES, NO
FINES.... JUST JUMP STRAIGHT TO VOTING BOOTHS!
AND VOTE OFTEN!!!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-binder-californias-surrender-to.html
In 2013, California lawmakers passed legislation
that allowed illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses if they can prove to
the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) their identity and state residency. The
plan was one of the largest victories to date by the open borders lobby.… JOHN BINDER –
BREITBART.com
MEX MURDERS MOTHER IN PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, KAMALA
HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM'S ! SANCTUARY ! CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO!
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Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
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"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
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In the last two years, ICE officers made
266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or
convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 s ex crimes, and 4,000 violent k illings.
Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally k illed by those who
illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we
don't act right now.
STEALING AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/california-under-mex-occupation-do-not.html
THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF CORRUPTION AND OPEN
BORDERS HAS DONE TO ONE CITY!
SANCTUARY CITY
SAN FRANSISCO
AMERICA’S
DUMPSTER CITY OF FILTH AND DRUG DEALERS
HOME TO SENATOR
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS, REP. NANCY PELOSI and GAVEN NEWSOM
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/monica-showalter-sanctuary-city-san.html
Build
the Wall to Save Taxpayers Billions
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2019/03/14/build-the-wall-to-save-taxpayers-billions-n2543076
STEALING AMERICA!
Here’s how California
surrendered to Mexico… OR WAS HANDED TO MEXICO BY NANCY PELOSI, DIANNE
FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, JERRY BROWN and GAVIN NEWSOM!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/california-under-mex-occupation-do-not.html
THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF CORRUPTION AND OPEN
BORDERS HAS DONE TO ONE CITY!
SANCTUARY CITY
SAN FRANSISCO
AMERICA’S
DUMPSTER CITY OF FILTH AND DRUG DEALERS
HOME TO SENATOR
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS, REP. NANCY PELOSI and GAVEN NEWSOM
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/monica-showalter-sanctuary-city-san.html
“It’s almost impossible
to get convicted in this city,” said [Sgt. Kevin] Healy, who works in the
Police Department’s narcotics division. “The message needs to be sent that
it’s not OK to be selling drugs. It’s not allowed anywhere else. Where else can
you walk up to someone you don’t know and purchase crack and heroin? Is there
such a place?”…
Police say drug dealers
from the East Bay ride BART into San Francisco every day to prey on the
addicts slumped on our sidewalks, and yet the city that claims to
so desperately want to help those addicts often looks the other way.
Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
THE STAGGERING COST OF THE WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND
THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE BUILT BORDER to OPEN BORDER’
According
to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s
2017 report, illegal
immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion
annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not
an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants
(including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of their lifetimes,
and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration
costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are
a massive burden on American taxpayers.
California Governor Declares There’s No ‘National Emergency’ in Border Town With a Wall
March 9, 2019 Updated: March 9, 2019
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a major critic of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, visited a border town with a wall and declared there was no “national emergency.”
WATCH:
“[We are trying] to highlight a different story as it relates to what’s going on here between Mexico and the United States, and the economic vibrancy that is demonstrable here at the border,” Newsom said Thursday as he visited San Ysidro, a district in San Diego, California.
Newsom on Thursday hosted a roundtable discussion with local residents to talk about Trump’s national emergency declaration and what life is like on the U.S. southern border. The press conference was largely meant to push back against the president’s narrative that unfettered illegal immigration leads to crime and lawlessness. Participants of the conference spoke on camera about how the town is actually quite safe.
“They’ve had the mentality that it’s dangerous,” said local resident Edgar Alaniz, referring to Americans who believe the border town to be unsafe. “I live here. I come down here every day and I can tell you that it isn’t.”
However, critics of Newsom’s press conference were quick to point out one glaring detail about San Ysidro: it has a border wall.
“We remind Gov. Newsom that San Diego had a border crisis decades ago and built a border barrier which no sane person today is arguing should be torn down,” stated Tony Krvaric, the chairman of the San Diego County Republican Party. “We challenge the governor to make his arguments to the faces of angel families and those whose children have been trafficked or hooked on drugs due to the criminal gangs which use our border for their evil deeds.”
When the president extolls the benefits of border walls, he brings up San Diego’s success in deterring illegal immigration after building a wall.
“It was really, really bad,” Trump said when he visited the city in 2018, speaking alongside U.S. Border Patrol agents. “They reestablished law and order in San Diego when they put up a wall. And it’s not a superior wall; it’s an inferior wall. But it’s a wall.”
Around 40 percent of all illegal border crossings in the Southwest took place near San Diego in the 1980s. However, the communities of San Ysidro, Otay Mesa and Imperial Beach saw a 75 percent drop in crossings in the years immediately following fencing installation in the 1990s. Border officials have since beefed up the walls with steel bollards and military landing mats, making the San Diego border one of the most fortified in the country.
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Even before the latest surge, the
Department of Homeland Security spent over $3 billion in 2018 sheltering and
feeding illegals at the border, which is nearly double the cost from 2011.
Build
the Wall to Save Taxpayers Billions
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2019/03/14/build-the-wall-to-save-taxpayers-billions-n2543076
President
Donald Trump launched another battle for border-wall funding on Monday, calling
for $8.6 billion additional dollars in his proposed federal budget for next
year. Top Democrats came out swinging, bashing a border wall as "expensive
and ineffective."
The truth is, Dems are not leveling with the public about the
billions we're already forced to spend on shelters, food, diapers, medical care
and child care for migrants sneaking across the border and claiming asylum.
Not to mention the
costs of public schooling and healthcare provided free to migrants once they
are released into communities. The wall will pay for itself in less than two
years. It's a bargain.
Look what it costs us when a Central American teen crosses
the border illegally without an adult. Uncle Sam spends a staggering $775 per
day for each child housed at a shelter near Florida's Homestead Air Reserve
Base. There they have access to medical care, school and recreation. They stay,
on average, 67 days at the Homestead shelter before being released to a sponsor.
Do the math. That's almost $52,000 per child. American parents would appreciate
the government spending that money on their kids. Imagine the government
handing you a check for $52,000 for your teenager.
However, there are bigger costs ahead. The number of illegal
border crossers just hit an 11-year high with a total of more than 76,000
during the month of February alone. U.S. and Mexican officials predict hundreds
of thousands more in the coming months.
The
migrants use the word "asylum" as their get-in-free card. When they
say it to a border agent, they gain entry to the U.S. 80 percent of the time
according to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. They are temporarily
housed and eventually released with an immigration court date. But half never
go on to file an asylum claim, disappearing into the U.S., said former Attorney
General Jeff Sessions.
They're turning asylum into a scam. The system is meant to protect victims of
persecution, such as Cubans fleeing Castro's prisons. Now it's overwhelmed by
Central Americans escaping poverty for a lifestyle upgrade.
Legal immigrants also want to better their circumstances, but
they play by the rules. What a slap in the face to see migrants jump the line.
Unfortunately, a federal appeals court just made the asylum
hoax even easier. Last week, the left-leaning 9th Circuit ruled that migrants
who fail to convince border authorities they face danger in their home country
still have a "right" to a day in court in the U.S. That bizarre
ruling won't stand. Another circuit court ruled the opposite way in 2016,
clarifying that a border agent's decision is final and entering the U.S. is a
privilege, not a right. The Supreme Court let that earlier decision stand, so count
on the Supremes to reverse the 9th Circuit.
In the meantime, though, taxpayers are getting fleeced by
caravans of fake asylum-seekers.
Even before the latest
surge, the Department of Homeland Security spent over $3 billion in 2018
sheltering and feeding illegals at the border, which is nearly double the cost
from 2011.
Add to
that the hundreds of millions being spent caring for unaccompanied teenagers in
130 shelters overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Trump has tried several strategies to protect
taxpayers from these rip-offs. First, he barred illegal migrants from asking
for asylum, requiring that asylum-seekers enter the country through official
ports of entry. That would have reduced the numbers considerably. But in
November, a federal district judge, also from the 9th Circuit, nixed the
president's regulation.
Then, Trump devised a "Remain in Mexico"
arrangement to make Mexico the waiting room for asylum-seekers. As long as
they're south of the border, the U.S. doesn't have to house them, and they have
no "right" to public schooling and emergency medical care on our tab.
The program, if successful, will save U.S. taxpayers a bundle. It's one way
Mexico is already helping to pay for the wall.
Dems claim it's a waste to spend billions on a wall. But the
facts show we can't afford not to build it. As the cover of the president's new
budget says, "Taxpayers First."
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