Is that supposed to be Bush 41? How stale is your argument is you are posting 30 year old cartoons
Bush '43 and Trump nominated five consecutive white Roman Catholic SCOTUS justices for the purpose of overturning the SCOTUS
majority's decision of 49 years ago, Roe v. Wade. How anachronistic was it to nominate four consecutive male white Roman Catholic
SCOTUS justices and for Trump to nominate 54 appellate court judges, none of them black in a country only 30 percent white male?
How stale, ossified is the G.O.P. in 2022 ? It is still the 1928 Hoover G.O.P. The party learns no lessons, just keeps churning out
wedge issues in a manipulative, divisive strategy of distraction, "the marks" never wondering why "mail in ballots," "CRT in K-12," or
"grooming" are suddenly ginned up, seemingly out of nowhere, to become RWE media and politician obsessions.
How did California become the most populous, diverse, economically dynamic and confounding state in the union? A new book takes a stab at examining that question.
www.latimes.com
Essential Politics: The one word that best describes California
The state has a long history of whipsawing between political movements. How did a single state, in such a short time, produce such different leaders in governors Earl Warren and Ronald Reagan?
MAY 18, 2022
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So, how did California become America’s think tank?
A great new book takes a stab at answering that question.
John Mack Faragher, a retired Yale history professor, has just published “
California: An American History,” which explores how the state became the most populous, diverse, economically dynamic and confounding state in the union.
Kirkus calls the book “a masterful history of a place that is both reality and ideal, and central to the modern world.”
...Warren left a positive legacy,
Reagan a negative one. Warren became governor during the war, when the booming economy was generating enormous tax revenue for the state.
Instead of lowering taxes, he created a huge “rainy day” fund for postwar conversion.
That became the hallmark of his tenure. As Warren put it, “Make no small plan for California.” He professionalized state government, funded public education, expanded higher education, began the freeway system and funded low-cost loans for home building. Republican Warren helped birth modern California. By the time Reagan was elected in 1966, however, the Republican Party had turned against Warren, who was then chief justice of the Supreme Court. In fiscal policy, education and housing, the state is still trying to recover from the retrenchment of Reagan and his movement.
What part of California history should be more thoroughly studied?
In 1850, California went directly from conquered territory to statehood, which put the state’s white citizens fully in charge of creating state government. They created a regime that refused to recognize the rights of former Mexican citizens and committed the state to the destruction of Native communities. The Legislature refused to take up the ratification of the 14th Amendment, and rejected the 15th, which guaranteed the right of suffrage to all male American citizens. Among the “northern” states, California led the way to the politics of white supremacy, particularly the movement to restrict the rights of Chinese, Japanese and other Asian immigrants. This period of California history needs to be better known..."