The California Primary Election Season Is Screaming A Warning For The Nation

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The California Primary Election Season Is Screaming A Warning For The Nation

Democrats do not moderate. They will not moderate. They will not ‘move to the center.’ There will be no course correction.

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Editor’s note: This article discusses mature themes.

Like a woolly mammoth warning his friends in the tar pit that they should avoid tar pits, the former Massachusetts congressional parasite Barney Frank said this week that his final act as he enters hospice care will be to release a book warning Democrats that they’ve gone too far to the left. Imagine how obvious that fact has become if Barney Frank is able to perceive it.

There are at least a few similar noises being made elsewhere on the left, as the occasional Democrat warns that Democrats need to be less crazy and more effective at governing.

But don’t mistake those outliers for the Democrat mainstream, which isn’t moderating at all. They’ve set a course for the sun, and they mean to get there. Two recent examples warn us with great clarity that Democrats have no doubts about the aggressiveness of their hard turn to the left.

First, and most obviously, the latest in a series of California gubernatorial debates just saw Democrat candidates fighting to see who could give away more Monopoly money. The nightmarish candidate Katie “Mashed Potatoes” Porter promised free child care and free college, while the hilariously cynical anti-rich-people multibillionaire Tom Steyer promised state-run single-payer health care. California is facing a $35 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, and a nosebleed-inducing unfunded public pension liability, so the plan is to give away more cash. Unusually for........

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