{"id":2029711,"date":"2023-09-12T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-california-restore-two-party-competition\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:12:48","slug":"can-california-restore-two-party-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-california-restore-two-party-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Can California revive two-party competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcan-california-restore-two-party-competition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2029711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n    <em>Commentary<\/em>\n  <\/div>\n<p>California desperately needs a two-party \u2062system. A\u200d one-party system, like North Korea\u2019s under \u2064Kim Jong Un, or China\u2019s under Xi Jinping, just isn\u2019t our way. It\u2019s not us. Currently, Republicans hold fewer than one-third of the seats in the California Assembly and Senate, and are lucky if they can scratch up more than 40 percent of the \u2063vote in statewide races.<\/p>\n<p>Just \u2064by the\u2064 numbers, the GOP has to attract many more \u200bnon-whites, who are a minority now in the state; and a large portion of whites are hard-core leftist Democrats like\u200c Reps. Nancy Pelosi,\u2062 Adam\u200b Schiff, and Katie Porter. The latter\u2064 two, along with Rep.\u200c Barbara Lee, who is \u200dblack, are vying to replace retiring nonagenarian Sen. Dianne \u2064Feinstein.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opinion\/california-leaders-virtue-signaling-is-mainly-gaslighting-5489819\">California Leaders&#8217; Virtue-Signaling Is Mainly Gaslighting<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/11\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opinion\/california-leaders-virtue-signaling-is-mainly-gaslighting-5489819\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/california-lawmakers-vote-to-raise-taxes-on-guns-and-ammunition-5488734\">California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Taxes\u200c on\u2062 Guns and Ammunition<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/8\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/california-lawmakers-vote-to-raise-taxes-on-guns-and-ammunition-5488734\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u2064 I was \u200bborn in \u200dDetroit in \u20621955 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Wayne. A large number of immigrants came there, largely from Europe, to work in the factories\u200d and enjoy the prosperity of the auto industry. \u2062The general pattern was they would vote Democrat because the party was allied with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/insulting-labor-unions-that-endorsed-biden-now-lashing-out-at-him\/\" title=\"\u201cInsulting\u201d- Labor Unions That Endorsed Biden Now Lashing Out At Him\">labor unions<\/a>, and\u200c advanced such reforms as Social\u2063 Security, Medicare, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/about-nlrb\/who-we-are\/our-history\/1935-passage-of-the-wagner-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Labor Relations Act<\/a>. Later, when \u2064the immigrants became prosperous, and often started new businesses, they\u2064 revolted against the high taxes \u200dand regulations and\u2064 switch \u2063to\u2063 Republican.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    That seems to be\u200b happening now with the latest immigrants. Vivek Ramaswamy, an\u200c entrepreneur from Cleveland, made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GwzobtrquXs&#038;ab_channel=CNN-News18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big splash<\/a> at \u2063the first \u200cGOP debate two weeks ago. Former South Carolina \u2062Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, also of Indian background, \u200ddid fairly well from a different perspective. Sen. Tim Scott of\u2062 the Palmetto State, who is \u2062black, made some good points on taxes, but \u2063fell flat. Perhaps next time.\n  <\/div>\n<p>In California, Republican state Chairwoman Jessica\u200b Millan Patterson is Hispanic. Harmeet\u200b Kaur\u2063 Dhillon was born \u200bin India. A brilliant lawyer, she is the former chair of the San \u200dFrancisco Republican Party \u2063(yes, there are Republicans there) and vice-chair of the\u2062 state GOP. In January, she came up short in seeking to replace Ronna McDaniel as chair of the national GOP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u200c In the \u200cU.S. \u2063House, Republican Reps. Michelle Steel and Young Kim, both \u2064Korean-Americans, have made impressive\u2063 careers in a short time, also fending off Democrat challenges. Likewise \u200dwith Rep. Mike Garcia,\u2062 who was targeted heavily by Democrats in\u2063 2022. \u200bRep. David Valadao voted \u2063to\u200b impeach Trump over the\u200d Jan. 6 mostly\u200b peaceful protest. But for some reason, Trump laid off opposing him the way he did Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Mr. Valadao won reelection last November, 52 percent to 48 percent over the Democrat challenger, Democrat\u200c State Assemblyman Rudy Salas.<br \/>\n\u200c  \u2064  \u200b<\/p>\n<h2>Why Aren\u2019t Republicans Gaining?<\/h2>\n<p>    So, Republicans are putting up good people.\u2064 What\u2019s the problem? Why \u2062aren\u2019t they gaining? Primarily, there are\u200d three reasons.\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u200b  First, there\u2019s the legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1994_California_Proposition_187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 187<\/a> from \u200b1994, which would have\u200b cut off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/houston-rockets-owner-tilman-fertitta-slams-enhanced-unemployed-benefits-americans-have-no-incentive-to-work\/\" title=\"Houston Rockets Owner Tilman Fertitta Slams Enhanced Unemployed Benefits: Americans Have No Incentive To Work\">state benefits<\/a> to illegal aliens. It passed, but then was thrown out of court. I wrote the Orange County Register\u2019s articles opposing\u2063 it, not because it cut benefits, but because \u200dit turned nurses and teachers into snoops. It was a lesson on the importance of\u2062 writing initiatives carefully.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u2062  \u2063 Some still \u2062are obsessed with it. \u2062Los\u2063 Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-29\/proposition-187-california-pete-wilson-essay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlined<\/a>, \u201cProp. 187 forced a generation to put fear\u2063 aside and fight. It transformed California, and me.\u201d But the vote was 29 years ago. And the immigration debate now is national and concerns President\u200c Joe Biden opening the borders to anybody \u2063to come\u2063 in.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    Even liberal Democrats are \u2063becoming upset. Just on Sept. \u20626, New York City Mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/07\/nyregion\/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> at a Manhattan\u2062 town hall, \u201cLet me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to\u2014I don\u2019t see\u200d an ending to this. This issue will destroy\u2062 New York City.\u201d<br \/>\n  \u2064\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    Then there\u2019s Communist China \u201cvery likely\u201d slipping \u201cmilitary personnel\u201d into \u200bAmerica through the porous Southern\u200c border, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/china-military-personnel-us-southern-border-national-security-mark-green-1807287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Mark Green, Republican chair of the House Homeland Security \u200bCommittee.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    And fentanyl. Vanda Felbab-Brown is the director \u2062of the Initiative on\u200d Nonstate Armed Actors \u200cat the liberal Brookings Institution. She\u200d submitted testimony to the House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions on March 23, 2023, for the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/event\/118th-congress\/house-event\/115542?s=1&#038;r=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow \u2063the Money<\/a>: The CCP\u2019s Business Model \u200bFueling the Fentanyl Crisis\u201d hearing.\n  <\/div>\n<p>She said, \u201cThree U.S. presidential administrations\u2014those\u2062 of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden\u2014have devoted \u2062diplomatic focus to induce and impel China to tighten its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-california-restore-two-party-competition\/\" title=\"Can California revive two-party competition?\">regulations vis-\u00e0-vis \u200bfentanyl-class drugs<\/a> and their precursor chemicals \u200cand \u2062to more\u2064 diligently enforce these regulations. China, however, sees \u2062its counternarcotics enforcement, and more broadly its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-arrests-150-people-in-international-dark-web-opioid-probe\/\" title=\"DOJ arrests 150 people in international dark web opioid probe\">international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-virtually-with-mexican-leader-on-immigration-ccp-virus-climate-issues\/\" title=\"Biden Meets Virtually With Mexican Leader on Immigration, CCP Virus, Climate Issues\">law enforcement cooperation<\/a><\/a>, as strategic tools that it can instrumentalize to achieve other objectives. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2020, China\u2019s cooperation with U.S. counternarcotics efforts,\u2064 never high, declined \u2063substantially. In August 2022, China officially announced that it suspended all counternarcotics and law enforcement cooperation\u2064 with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue now \u200bis tipping toward Republicans\u2014if\u200c they can take advantage of it. People\u2064 are OK with\u200b immigration\u2014if it\u2019s controlled, legal, and the\u200b immigrants aren\u2019t being \u2063used as \u201cmules\u201d to sneak in fentanyl.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    Former CNN reporter Steve Cortes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CortesSteve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describes<\/a> himself \u200bon\u2063 X as, \u201cPatriotic\u200d Populist. Bad Hombre. Born for a Storm. Ron DeSantis \u2064PAC National Spokesman.\u201d \u2063On Sept. 7 \u2062he put \u2062up a new <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2023\/09\/07\/bidens-border-nightmare-worsens\/?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=act_eng&#038;seyid=87173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on \u2063American Greatness, \u201cBiden\u2019s Border \u2064Chaos Damages America\u2019s Schools.\u201d He wrote how \u201cschools across the country\u2014not just in border areas\u2014grapple to deal with an illegal influx that prioritizes\u2064 foreign migrants above our own American \u200bchildren.\u201d<br \/>\n \u200d\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    \u2063  Mr. Cortes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CortesSteve\/status\/1699793015655797148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> the same day, \u201cWe cannot\u200b save\u200b America without \u200cregaining control over our border and migration. Suspend massively-abused asylum \u200bprograms, deport illegals, build \u2063the wall, and then reduce even legal\u2064 immigration. Do we have the will to defeat the globalists and reclaim our sovereignty?\u201d\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>    That\u2019s the issue today, not musty nostalgia for fighting Prop. 187.<br \/>\n   \u2063<\/p>\n<h2>Schwarzenegger\u200b and Trump<\/h2>\n<p>    Second, Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s \u200ddisastrous governorship went \u2064far toward \u201cterminating\u201d the state GOP. As \u200dI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opinion\/the-media-is-helping-schwarzenegger-rewrite-his-governorship-5457676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed<\/a> in The Epoch Times on\u2064 Aug. 10 in, \u201cThe Media I<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California urgently requires a two-party system, as a one-party system akin to North Korea or China does not align with our values. 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