Posted on 08/25/2019 6:51:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The epicenter of 2018’s version of conservatism, and of American Trumpism, isn’t Washington, DC. It’s California.
Breitbart News was founded in Los Angeles, and its headquarters remains in the city’s Brentwood Heights neighborhood. Its founder, Andrew Breitbart, who died in 2012, met former White House adviser Steve Bannon in LA. Ben Shapiro, whom Breitbart mentored and who worked at his eponymous publication, now runs his own conservative media empire, DailyWire.com, out of a nondescript office building in LA.
The Claremont Colleges, located on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, were the birthplace of intellectual Trumpism and the “Flight 93 Election” — an influential essay published in the Claremont Review of Books that stated that electing Trump was the only way to save the country. The author of that missive, Michael Anton, went to the University of California Berkeley and Claremont Graduate University, and then went on to work in the Trump White House, alongside White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, a native of Santa Monica, and Trumpist trade adviser Peter Navarro, who taught at the UC Irvine.
In September, I traveled the length of the Golden State, stopping at conservative outpost after conservative outpost, to try to understand how one of the most liberal states in the union had become the intellectual engine of contemporary conservatism.
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Hmm. And I got my PhD from UCSB . . .
CaliPing
The intellectual engine of Trumpism....that Trump neither needs or relys on. Bannon fired and Shitpero is a Trump hater. Miller and the rest, talk show puppets.
Prove your worth oh great Wiztards of Clods and fix The craphole state that you were so brilliantly educated from.
Note that California has turned into a leftist sh!th*le the past 20 years. And Sacramento, Silicon Valley and Hollywood are increasingly aligned with and controlled by Mainland China, which uses California as a technological and intellectual base in its efforts to cripple the U.S.
As he throws out slurs and insults on a web site based in California.
the population is in the cities and the cities are addicted to the government teat.
California still has a lot of Conservatives; more than the MSM would ever report. If it were not for the organized RAT voter fraud, CA would have more Republicans in office. President Trump just got $3.2 million in donations to his campaign out of CA.
New campaign finance statistics show that President Donald Trump raised $3.2 million — more money from the California donor class than all of his Democratic challengers, but two.
The old saying “It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt! ” comes to mind!
If you think WH Advisor Stephen Miller is a talk show puppet, I think we all know what that says you are.
The whole Gray Davis recall debacle in 2001 destroyed the future of the right in California. It will take a whole generation to get over that.
The podcaster-youtuber-streaming media business has some strong groups in LA
Prager U,
Daily-Wire
Rubin Report - he toured with Jordan Peterson and has hinted a forum or system might be in development to replace Patreon.
Joe Rogan
I think Eric Weinstein is in Calif. I know his boss billionairre Pter Theil is in LA after leaving Silicon Valley
There have been hints dropped, that possibly some rich investors would do some conservative Big Tech moves.
Also heard to watch for Sept. 1st.
I left California 7 years ago. Many good conservatives there, they are just outnumbered. I lived in the bay area, so many opportunities for protests, etc. More activity than the red rural area in Texas I live in now, though I’m not complaining.
Liberals are getting more and more insane as the minutes pass by.
Trump is not detail, no president is. He also relies on his staff to bring him ideas. Stephen Miller originates and writes most all of his illegal aliens policies.
I like Trump too, but he doesn't do it by himself.
Miller is brilliant. Nuff said.
If a person needs encouragement, then he should just go to the Reagan Museum in Simi Valley and be amazed by the brilliant people there, the patriotic tourists and the wonderful speakers. Original sin causes all of us to ignore the Creator Who always wants us to create another Golden Age.
CA has 4.7m registered Republicans.
CA has 8.4m registered DemoKKKrats.
This has shifted in the last two years by about half a million more to the Ds.
I know probably a dozen strong conservatives just in Hollywood, most of whom don’t want to be outed. BUT, unless you can segregate those 4.7m into clearly R districts, they are swallowed up. Then thrown in CA indies, who tend to vote D and the Rs are pretty much helpless.
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