California’s War Against President Trump Has Proven to be a War Against the American Citizen

Only 10 days ago, President Trump visited Los Angeles, flying in and viewing the destruction of the Pacific Palisades fire from Marine One, and meeting with several state and local leaders to discuss wildfire recovery.

During his visit, Trump announced two conditions in order to receive federal aid: voter ID laws and for the state to stop diverting water flows to the Pacific Ocean, and instead send Northern California water to the southern state.

Trump also hunted that FEMA could either be overhauled or eliminated.

It’s only Democrat politicians who push for no voter ID to vote, who push for illegal aliens to have a valid ID, and who have allowed California’s water to flow to the ocean instead of to farmers and Central and Southern California cities.

Governor Gavin Newsom had a tarmac talk with the President, hoping to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in federal recovery aid.

I wonder if Trump was thinking about the day after the November Election when the California Governor wasted no time after Trump’s landslide win, harassing and threatening the soon-to-be 47th president.

As the Globe reported, Newsom issued a bridled threat “to stand with states across our nation to defend our Constitution and uphold the rule of law.”

He followed that subtle threat with specifics – planned lawsuits against the Trump administration:

Newsom issued a proclamation convening a special session of the California Legislature “shoring up California’s defenses against an incoming federal administration that has threatened the state on multiple fronts.”

That’s government-speak for “we will be suing the Trump administration as fast as we can prepare the lawsuits” over “an agenda that could erode essential freedoms and individual rights, including women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights,” Newsom actually said.

The lawsuits will likely be over California’s environmental policies and climate change woo woo, as well as any federal policies impacting  California like withholding High Speed Rail funding, offshore drilling/fracking for natural gas, water policy, dam removal, forest management, to name just a few.

It is quite telling that California’s Democrat supermajority is prioritizing frivolous lawsuits against the president rather than cleaning up their own very messy state.

The Assembly Democrats just passed two bills appropriating $50 million taxpayer dollars to “Trump proof” California. “We do not trust President Donald Trump,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said.

Yet it was Speaker Rivas who had the temerity to tell Trump not to play politics when it comes to California wildfire recovery aid. Pot, meet kettle.

California Democrats need to get their act together… and get their stories straight, or the Trump Administration may just withhold federal funding. Spending $50 million to sue Trump and his administration won’t endear the state’s legislative Democrats to the President.

California’s Democrat supermajority Legislature is filled with elected politicians who have been raised as activists, rather than policy wonks who understand and appreciate common sense governing.

These politicians are responsible for California’s terrible policies which have and continue to result in devastation, loss of property and loss of life, the Globe recently reported.

Democrats prioritized “Trump Proofing” the state over fireproofing it. They have other priorities: Rather than prioritizing hiding children’s gender transitioning from parents, they could have shown concern about California’s ridiculously high cost of living, which is exploding even higher on essentials like housing, food, utilities, gas, insurance, and healthcare. Rather than scheming on ways to increase the state’s already highest taxes in the nation, they could have cut taxes and regulations. Rather than increasing gas taxes making our gas the highest priced in the country, they could have re-opened oil drilling and natural gas extraction, and removed the severe regulations and restrictions on the few remaining refineries in the state.

These are the priorities of the people of California. How many cities, neighborhoods and houses have to burn down before the people start demanding that our priorities become the politicians priorities?

In our 2017 book California’s War Against Donald Trump: Who Wins? Who Loses? James Lacy and I took a thorough, analytical look into the clash between Donald Trump’s policies and those of California’s liberal leaders who mounted a vigorous “resistance.” We revealed who was winning, and losing, from all the political grandstanding. With hundreds of references cited, dealing with subjects spanning California’s sanctuary city policies, to “The Wall,” to healthcare, education, the temporary travel ban, federal regulatory policy, thwarting enforcement of immigration laws, and especially climate change, the battle between liberal Democrats in Sacramento and Trump was vividly detailed, from a perspective that agrees with Trump that California is “out of control,” and that politicians would do much better for the state by dropping the hostility and finding some sort of common ground.

Deja vu. Has anything changed in California from 2017?

A war against President Donald J. Trump has proven to be a war against the American Citizen.