Who’s Up For Some MACA (Make America California Again)?

A bold move by China Joe and The Los Angeles Times

Make America California Again? That’s Biden’s plan

After four years of being relentlessly targeted by a Republican president who worked overtime to bait, punish and marginalize California and everything it represents, the state is suddenly center stage again in Washington’s policy arena.

Huh what? Targeted? That was California’s Xavier Bacerra  (who now works for China Joe) suing the Trump admin over lots of things, such as cracking down on illegal immigration. Sorry if California was asked to pay its fair share.

California is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control. That’s rekindling past cliches about the state — incubator of innovation, premier laboratory of democracy, land of big ideas — even as it struggles with surging COVID-19 infections, a safety net frayed by the pandemic’s toll, crushing housing costs and wildfires, all fueling an exodus of residents.

There is no place the incoming administration is leaning on more heavily for inspiration in setting a progressive policy agenda. (snip)

Other Californians will be doing the same from Biden’s Cabinet. Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra is nominated to run the massive Health and Human Services Department. The nominee for Treasury secretary, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, is a professor at UC Berkeley, as is the nominee for Energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm. Longtime California resident Alejandro Mayorkas is the nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security. (snip)

Not that Biden needs the nudge. He’s been pushing to nationalize some of the state’s pioneering efforts on climate action, workers’ rights, law enforcement and criminal justice, healthcare and economic empowerment since he was vice president in the Obama era. He continued to champion the cause while he and Harris were still rivals in the 2020 presidential race.

Let’s see: poop and used drug needles in the streets, a massive amount of homelessness (decriminalizing homelessness and giving them drug paraphernalia) , rising property and violent crime rates in the cities run by Democrats, an outsized cost of living, excusing illegal immigration, rolling brownouts and blackouts, many of them planned, skyrocketing energy prices, skyrocketing housing prices, a hostile environment for businesses, and so much more, to the point people and businesses are streaming out of the state to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and even Mexico. Californians think the state is headed in the wrong direction.

How’s this going to work for that #Unity stuff?