{"id":560425,"date":"2023-03-07T01:52:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-memo-desantis-finds-foil-in-california\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T01:52:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T22:52:28","slug":"the-memo-desantis-finds-foil-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-desantis-finds-foil-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Memo: DeSantis finds foil in California\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a96b405e3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a96b405e3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-desantis-finds-foil-in-california\/#The_Memo_DeSantis_finds_foil_in_California\" >The Memo: DeSantis finds foil in California\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Memo_DeSantis_finds_foil_in_California\"><\/span>The Memo: DeSantis finds foil in California\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/d69856cc01f5441ca3451df0c135c58d-e1678153933867.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) ventured into the belly of the liberal beast Sunday, hitting out at California while visiting the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis contended during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., that the Golden State was \u201chemorrhaging population.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>This, he argued, was evidence that the \u201cexperiment\u201d with progressive politics in one of the most liberal states in the nation was failing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people as a whole in some ways have voted about this experiment, because they voted with their feet,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd if you look over the last four years, we\u2019ve witnessed a great American exodus from states governed by leftist politicians, imposing leftist ideology and delivering poor results.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one level, those remarks were the latest chapter in DeSantis\u2019s ongoing political feud with California Gov. Gavin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om (D).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Newsom, coasting to reelection, dropped some cash on a TV ad to run in Florida. The ad alleged that \u201cfreedom is under attack\u201d by leaders like DeSantis, whom Newsom characterized as \u201cbanning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Newsom ad called on disaffected Floridians to \u201cjoin us in California.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A DeSantis spokesperson at that time hit back by calling California \u201ca hellhole\u201d and Newsom\u2019s ad \u201ca pathetic smear.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On Sunday, DeSantis began his remarks by noting drily, \u201cyour governor\u2019s very concerned about what we\u2019re doing in Florida, so I figured I had to come by.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But DeSantis\u2019s remarks were also emblematic of something broader than a row with just one governor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they are part of a pattern in which the Golden State has become an inviting target for conservatives. For a significant share of the GOP grassroots, California has become synonymous with \u201cwokeness,\u201d high taxes, over-regulation, crime and homelessness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cLook at the vast majority of elected officials in California \u2014there\u2019s a big blue \u2018D\u2019 after their name\u201d said Tobe Berkovitz, a Boston University professor emeritus who specializes in political communication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor, senators, most of the congresspeople, most of the mayors \u2014 it is very blue, very liberal and, for Republicans, very filled with the problems that are endemic to liberal states.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far as voting behavior goes, that point is certainly true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>California has not backed a Republican for the White House since it voted for then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988. President Biden carried the state by almost 30 points in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No Republican has won a Senate seat in California since Sen. Pete Wilson won reelection in 1988.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilson went on to become governor \u2014 where his name will be forever associated with Proposition 187, a ballot measure that passed in 1994. Proposition 187 pushed a harder line than previously on illegal immigration, holding that unauthorized immigrants should be blocked from most services provided through the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Though it passed, it never went\u00a0fully\u00a0into effect \u2014 and it is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly perceived as having done enormous harm to the GOP\u2019s political fortunes in California by alienating Latino voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats say Wilson\u2019s stances were crucial in changing the political complexion of the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they got into the whole proposition wars on immigration, when Pete Wilson was governor, that was the pivot,\u201d said California-based Democratic strategist Bill Carrick. \u201cHe sort of shifted the Republicans into a big-time anti-immigration message and Prop. 187 was scary to a lot of people in the state.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Carrick also noted that the same shift has the perverse effect of making it easier for conservatives like DeSantis or former President Trump to attack California. Trump made a habit of jabbing at the state and its major cities, such as calling San Francisco \u201cworse than a slum\u201d at a 2020 rally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In short, Carrick suggested, Republicans can\u2019t really fare any worse in the Golden State, no matter what they say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are so politically irrelevant in any general election, from president to statewide races to congressional races. So they have nothing to lose,\u201d Carrick said, \u201cYou can beat up California because you don\u2019t have any chance in hell of getting any Electoral College votes there. There is no political downside.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to forget these days that California produced two of the Republican presidents of the modern era, Reagan and President Nixon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Potential presidential contenders like DeSantis seem to believe \u2014 perhaps rightly \u2014 that the state\u2019s significant number of Republican voters don\u2019t take attacks on the state personally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump still received more than 6 million votes in California, even while suffering his 2020 drubbing, for example.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Above all, California has become a cultural touchstone of liberalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The state is, after all, not only home to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) and a host of other liberal figureheads but to the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a conservative target, Berkovitz noted, \u201cCalifornia gets bonus points for being the home to the liberal cultural machine, particularly Hollywood. So much of this battle is cultural as well as purely political.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given DeSantis\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>etite for fighting the culture wars on every possible issue, it\u2019s little surprise that he has California in his sights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Ron DeSantis (R) ventured into the belly of the liberal beast Sunday, hitting out at California while visiting the state.\u00a0 DeSantis contended during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., that the Golden State was \u201chemorrhaging population.\u201d\u00a0 This, he argued, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":560426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/d69856cc01f5441ca3451df0c135c58d-e1678153933867.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,117,13096,134418,4941,73109,124783,40445,140987,140988,140989,29102,140990,134345],"class_list":["post-560425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-business","tag-california","tag-congress-blog","tag-donald-trump","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-international","tag-media","tag-pete-wilson","tag-proposition-187","tag-reagan-library","tag-ron-desantis","tag-simi-valley","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}