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Miranda Devine: Eric Swalwell’s fall from grace was by design — and so Dems can keep their grubby hands on California

Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.

Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his ­remains.

Swalwell’s clinical political eradication this week tells you everything about the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and efficiently they will move to keep to power in the state they have controlled for 15 years and run into the ground.

California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of their vast patronage system, fueled in part by illegal migration and social services fraud that has ripped tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars off the taxpayer and recycled it through unions and “grassroots” donations back into the party.

That’s why Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, calls California the “kingdom of fraud” as he confronts massive organized ripoffs of Medicaid, home health services and hospice care.

California Democrats, like presidential aspirant and Gov. Gavin Newsom, another Pelosi protégé, turn a blind eye to the fraud as the price of prospering in the ­machine.

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Illegal migration, turbocharged under Joe Biden by his Homeland Security secretary, California hit man Alejandro Mayorkas, also served the machine well, by artificially inflating the state’s census counts........

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