With former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing she will not seek reelection to Congress next year, the initial reaction from the right was one of celebration. And while it's true that no more Pelosi means no more enduring her smug, elitist persona, it's also incontrovertible that when a far left politician retires from representing a left wing area, their replacement will definitely not be more moderate.
Sure, right wingers were enthusiastically waving goodbye to Pelosi. But that celebration should be tempered given who is the early favorite to replace San Fran Nan.
If you think men don’t belong in girls’ bathrooms, kids shouldn’t get irreversible sex changes, or cops should stop street prostitution of minors, Scott Wiener probably thinks you’re a bigot.
Indeed, it seems easy to offend Wiener, the San Francisco Democrat running for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D.) seat — and anyone who holds mainstream or conventional views on biology, women’s or parents’ rights, or conservative governance frequently does.
Last month, Wiener found it “gross” that San Francisco women turned up at his annual Halloween event to protest his transgender policies. He called the late Charlie Kirk a “vile bigot” before and after the conservative activist was brutally, publicly murdered. Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are also “bigots,” and Republican diplomat Richard Grenell is a “self-hating gay man.”
The people he approves of are very different — like a gay porn-purveying drag queen from the anti-Catholic drag troupe Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whom he honored on the California Senate floor as “one of the very best community leaders,” as well as San Francisco’s former soft-on-crime district attorney George Gascón, with whom he has collaborated on legislation. San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair, a public nudity-and-group sex festival whose attendees are advised to watch out for men peeing on one another, is a “beautiful community” that Wiener is “proud to stand up for.”
This is yet further validation of my NARN colleague Mitch Berg's "Cano’s Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law."
In Blue city (or in this case, Congressional District - ed.) electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”. A symptom of this is when one sees people just barely to the left of a city’s Overton Window referring to the progressive politicians and institutions in power as “Conservatives” or “Republicans”.
Yep. Nancy Pelosi - milquetoast moderate.
You knew this day wasn't far away when shortly after "The Squad" was elected 7 years ago, they and their ilk bombarded Pelosi's office to demand more serious proposals on "climate change." As we're witnessing, yesterday's fringe kook leftists are today's mainstream Democrats.
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