POr his first trip outside Washington, Friday, January 24, chose Donald Trump Los Angeles. Even as president, he does not intend to miss such a wonderful opportunity to mock California, or even to humiliate the Democrats who lead the most populated state in the country.
The fires that plagued several neighborhoods of the “Cinema Capital” between January 7 and 10, and the unpreparedness they have exposed, came at the right time to allow him to practice the transactional approach he is now in The relations between Washington and the states of the federation: no humanitarian aid without a minimum of cooperation.
A few days before his departure, Joe Biden gave massive assistance to the California Megalopolis for Reconstruction, but the Governor of the State, Gavin Newsom, and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, remain at the mercy of a ukase of the White House. Especially because Donald Trump renewed his accusations against the democratic state, which he claims to waste water. His ally Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House of Representatives, did not exclude from his part that federal aid was used to destroy a state that refuses to follow the orders of the new administration on the expansion of people without papers.
“California Bashing”
Donald Trump could no longer rejoice. In their eyes, California is the anti-model, the symbol of the excess of progressive policy and “wokism”. The tendency for “California Bashing” is not new to the Republican Party. But due to the former state attorney, the Golden State’s scapegoat status has doubled in the National Cultural War.
It wasn’t always that way. During most of the 20th century century, California was seen as the El Dorado of new gold prospectors. People came there in search of fame, beaches, freedom and renewal. California’s Aura was affected in the 1960s and 1970s when conservatives discovered that the state was also home to protesters (in Berkeley), Hippies (in San Francisco) and supporters of free love (everywhere).