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The 2020 race for the White House
As the 2020 Democratic Party primary takes shape, we are seeing some old patterns emerge. These could cost the Democrats the White House with incredible consequences for the future of the United States. It is with no doubt that the United States is fast becoming a former super-power, and stepped into the past. What Donald Trump wants is not a future world, with diversity, hope, and opportunity for all. He desires a country stuck in the past, where whites will dominate all political aspects of life. In some ways, but only if Democrats take advantage of it, he is taking the National Republican Party down the same path as Pete Wilson took the California Republicans. At this point, and this is worth mentioning. Republicans hold no statewide office in the state. Once they were the dominant party.
Prop 187 was the beginning the end of this dominance. It made it clear for many people of Mexican-American decent that the time to stand on the sidelines was over. The rush to become citizens was on, and so was the rush to vote. Within a generation, the Republican Party is consigned to deep rural counties in the state. Almost every urban area of a certain size is in the hands of Democrats. They also have supermajorities in Sacramento, and the state has become far more liberal in both policies and outlook. This irritates Republicans in the state. However, they are unable to capture the imagination…