PFor his first trip outside Washington, Friday, January 24, Donald Trump chose Los Angeles. Even become president, he does not intend to miss such a good opportunity to mock California, or even humiliate the Democrats who direct the most populous state in the country.
The fires that have ravaged several districts of the “cinema capital” between January 7 and 10, and the unpreparedness they have exposed, come at a timely to allow it to practice the transactional approach that it now hears Apply in relations between Washington and the Federation States: no humanitarian aid without a minimum of cooperation.
A few days before his departure, Joe Biden had granted massive aid to the Californian 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 Oukase of the White House. Especially since Donald Trump has renewed his accusations against the Democratic State, which, according to him, would waste water. His ally Mike Johnson, the president of the House of Representatives, did not exclude, for his part, to use federal aid to make a state that refuses to follow the injunctions of the new administration on the expulsions of without -papers.
« California bashing »
Donald Trump could not delight his supporters more. In their eyes, California is anti -vanity, the symbol of the drifts of progressive policies and “wokism”. The propensity for “California bashing” is not new in the republican party. But due to the candidacy of Kamala Harris, the former state prosecutor, the scapegoat status of the Golden State has redoubled in the national cultural war.
-It has not always been so. During most of the XXe century, California was seen as the Eldorado of new gold researchers. We came to seek celebrity, beaches, freedom and renewal. The Californian aura was tarnished, in the years 1960-1970, when the conservatives discovered that the State also housed protesters (in Berkeley), hippies (in San Francisco) and supporters of free love (everywhere everywhere ).
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