Total recall: The California GOP's plan to make democracy obsolete is coming to your state

[Nevilledog]

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https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2021/08/total-recall-california-gops-plan-make-democracy-obsolete

As a resident of Southern California, I’m sometimes asked to comment on my state’s politics by friends and family who live elsewhere. Lately, a lot of them have been expressing disbelief at the ongoing recall election that is currently underway to decide the fate of Governor Gavin Newsom.

While I appreciate the sympathy, my response is to issue a warning: All of this is coming to your state very soon.

Newsom is only the second California governor to face a recall election but according to the state’s website, the idea has been tried 55 times. Gray Davis is the only one thus far to have been removed from office, a 2003 event which ushered in the term of the last California Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Prior to that, the last GOP gubernatorial win in the Golden State took place in 1994 when Pete Wilson won a second term with 55 percent of the vote.

Ever since then, Republicans have been shut out of the governor’s mansion, hampered to a huge degree by Christian supremacist and anti-government policies pursued by the national GOP which have rubbed most California voters the wrong way. Instead of pushing back against the far-right wing of their party the way that Govs. Larry Hogan (R-Md.), Phil Scott (R-Vt.), and Charlie Baker (R-Ma.) have done, California’s Republican elites have remained silent or even cheered as anti-immigrant activists and religious bigots cemented control over the state party.

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