{"id":2597282,"date":"2026-04-30T17:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-california-primary-election-season-is-screaming-a-warning-for-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:11:30","slug":"the-california-primary-election-season-is-screaming-a-warning-for-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-california-primary-election-season-is-screaming-a-warning-for-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Primary Election Season Screams Warning For Nation"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fthe-california-primary-election-season-is-screaming-a-warning-for-the-nation%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=2597282&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--><p>The passage argues that the Democratic Party is not moderating and is instead moving further left, citing examples from California and beyond. It claims that while a few left-leaning figures warn Democrats to be more \u201ceffective\u201d or less extreme, these are treated as outliers rather than the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>It points to California gubernatorial debates where candidates compete for larger expansions of government-funded benefits (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-teachers-want-free-child-care-before-returning-to-in-person-learning\/\" title=\"LA Teachers Want Free Child Care Before Returning To In...Person Learning\">free child care<\/a>, free college, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-thinks-congress-is-theirs-but-moderates-keep-dealing-them-setbacks\/\" title=\"The ... Thinks Congress Is Theirs, But Moderates Keep Dealing Them Setbacks\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-senate-candidate-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Dem Senate Candidate Announces Support for Medicare for All\">single-payer<\/a> healthcare<\/a>) despite major budget and pension problems. It further argues that Democrats are also pushing policies the author frames as expanding welfare and immigration without deportations.<\/p>\n<p>The piece then highlights a California 11th district congressional debate, portraying leading candidates as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >advocating single-payer healthcare<\/a>, broad immigration policies, and expanded government-supported healthcare including \u201cgender-affirming\u201d and \u201creproductive\u201d care. It emphasizes the candidate Saikat Chakrabarti\u2019s calls for nationalizing large parts of the economy under federal control and offers an example of how he proposes government-driven housing production and financing. The author uses these points to contend that the left frequently \u201cconfesses\u201d to what it intends to do, and that conservatives are simply noticing plans Democrats explicitly support.<\/p>\n<p>It also references Scott Wiener\u2019s legislative record (including a controversial bill involving sex offender registry rules and another about vaccine access without parental consent). it mentions Seattle\u2019s \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d mayor responding to business departures, using it to reinforce the claim that Democrats won\u2019t change course-and concludes that moderation will onyl come through defeating them.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This article discusses mature themes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like a woolly mammoth warning his friends in the tar pit that they should avoid tar pits, the former Massachusetts congressional parasite Barney Frank <a href=\"http:\/\/politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/barney-frank-hospice-democrats-00897112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said this week<\/a> that his final act as he enters hospice care will be to release a book warning Democrats that they\u2019ve gone too far to the left. Imagine how obvious that fact has become if Barney Frank is able to perceive it.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least a few similar noises being made elsewhere on the left, as the occasional Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattMahanSJ\/status\/2049577467254628557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warns<\/a> that Democrats need to be less crazy and more effective at governing.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t mistake those outliers for the Democrat mainstream, which isn\u2019t moderating at all. They\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nypost\/status\/1976723962429108613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mashed Potatoes<\/a>\u201d Porter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katieporterca\/status\/2049305750376235361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised<\/a> free child care and free college, while the hilariously cynical anti-rich-people multibillionaire Tom Steyer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomSteyer\/status\/2049297751448637856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised<\/a> state-run single-payer health care. California is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/article_cb7b8dd4-7f8d-453c-8a63-3417286fd406.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$35 billion deficit<\/a> in the upcoming fiscal year, and a nosebleed-inducing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/article_b77e67bc-e842-11ec-ba2b-83e39b9717cd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unfunded public pension liability<\/a>, so the plan is to give away more cash. Unusually for California, <a href=\"https:\/\/biancoforgovernor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stevehiltonforgovernor.com\/meet-steve-hilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5853191-hilton-steyer-lead-california-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">among the leaders<\/a> in the polls and have a serious chance at becoming governor, but the competition isn\u2019t forcing Democrats back down to earth.<\/p>\n<p>Promising an endless buffet of free stuff, California Democrats also aggressively argue for an endless expansion of the people who get the free stuff. Steyer wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/tom-steyer-announces-plan-to-jail-ice-agents-calls-agency-a-violent-extremist-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrest ICE agents<\/a>, and California Democrats are uniformly calling for a zero-deportation regime that opens America to anyone who feels like coming. \u201cIt\u2019s just obvious you can\u2019t have free immigration and a welfare state,\u201d Milton Friedman once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/immigration\/commentary\/look-milton-open-borders-and-the-welfare-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, presumably while actually wearing the Captain Obvious costume, but that\u2019s exactly where California wants to go as policy: infinite welfare benefits for an infinite number of recipients.<\/p>\n<p>But the fools who aspire to be California\u2019s governor are mere <em>amateur<\/em> communists next to the fools who aspire to replace Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives. If you have a couple of hours to clearly understand the dark future of the Democrat Party, this is it, in the form of the April 29 debate between the leading candidates for California\u2019s 11th Congressional District in San Francisco:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"League of Women Voters Candidate Forum 2026: CA-11 Congressional District Candidates\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSVDRPzn5XA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They all want single-payer, they want unlimited immigration by any means without ICE or the threat of deportation, and they want more, more, and <em>more<\/em> government-funded \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d and \u201creproductive care,\u201d two euphemisms you already understand. All of those things connect: Your taxes need to cover more bottom surgeries so more dudes can get fake vaginas.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In a simply amazing series of arguments, CA-11 candidate Saikat Chakrabarti \u2014\u00a0AOC\u2019s former chief of staff, and a former Silicon Valley tech bro who has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/saikat-chakrabarti-net-worth-nancy-pelosi-primary-challenger-2025-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">net worth<\/a> that may approach $200 million \u2014 called over and over again for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/10\/30\/saikat-chakrabarti-nancy-pelosi-democratic-party-00624012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nationalization<\/a> of the economy under the firm guiding hand of the federal government. There are a half-dozen easy examples, and he thinks that you should buy food at \u201cpublic groceries\u201d on your way home from seeing your government doctor after a day of work at your government job developing new technology at the national institute that replaces tech corporations, but to catch the flavor from a single piece of video, watch his plan for housing:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saikat housing\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JKHUcsCCuMk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Housing will be built with government loans, under the guidance of a federal agency created for that purpose, but much of it will also just be built directly by \u201ca public developer,\u201d from a federally owned stockpile of construction materials, after which tenants will pay for that housing with federal \u201crental vouchers.\u201d Soup to nuts, housing is a government activity: planning, funding, materials, construction, paying to live in it.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative journalists keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/homeless-illegal-immigrants-sex-change-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">catching<\/a> leftist governments giving away massive amounts of free money with no controls and for appalling purposes, but the things the right <em>catches<\/em> the left doing are things that the left will just tell you they intend to do.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why are they confessing?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c14vfq3jqpo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While Chakrabarti is the most outrageous casual Bolshevik running for Pelosi\u2019s seat, the person who probably wins this race is the longtime state legislator Scott Wiener, the proud author of the successful California bill that <a href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/fr\/senator-scott-wieners-legislation-legalized-sex-predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">makes it less likely<\/a> for adults convicted of sodomizing minors to be listed on the sex offender registry. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>If you missed it, Wiener\u2019s argument for a failed bill to give minors the ability to get Covid-19 vaccines without parental consent was that it was just a logical extension of California\u2019s guarantee that 12-year-olds can already get secret abortions.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>California law already allows 12-17 year olds to access various forms of healthcare without parental consent, eg: HPV &#038; hep B vaccines, abortion care, birth control, mental healthcare, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-california-bill-would-allow-kids-12-to-be-vaccinated-without-parental-consent\/\" title=\"Proposed ... Bill Would Allow Kids 12+ To Be Vaccinated Without Parental Consent\">domestic violence-related care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SB 866 builds on this existing law to expand vaccine access.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scott_Wiener\/status\/1484560885364396036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, a thousand miles up the Left Coast, the \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d mayor of Seattle is casually waving goodbye to the businesses fleeing the city:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INSANE. Seattle&#8217;s Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying &#8220;BYE&#8221; \u2026 then laughing. We&#8217;re doomed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gP8CbPkqEl\">pic.twitter.com\/gP8CbPkqEl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandiKruse\/status\/2049562844862324861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They do not moderate. They will not moderate. Democrats will not \u201cmove to the center.\u201d There will be no course correction. The only way to moderate their course is to defeat them. They\u2019re telling you that as plainly as they can. When they tell you who they are, believe them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a woolly mammoth warning friends in a tar pit, Barney Frank says his hospice book will warn Democrats they\u2019ve gone too far left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2597283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steyer-abolish-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4045,78890,34382,33017,38090],"class_list":["post-2597282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-california","tag-democracy-warning","tag-election-security","tag-political-analysis","tag-primary-elections"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steyer-abolish-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597287,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597282\/revisions\/2597287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}