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Here’s how it was supposed to work. A Hispanic version of BLM operating out of California, funded by government money, would kickstart a national movement and catapult Newsom into the White House. But the plan isn’t working because the public isn’t invested in the riots.
The BLM riots formed a movement, but illegal aliens waving Mexican flags and Antifa setting Waymos on fire isn’t resonating with Americans the way George Floyd’s golden coffin did.
“I can’t breathe” market tests better than “I can’t illegally cross the border and commit crimes.”
Like California’s trillion dollar train to nowhere, it was a good idea on paper in Sacramento. Newsom polls better with Hispanics than any other group. Dem power in California is based on illegal aliens. Who better to take on Trump over illegal aliens than Gov. Gavin Newsom?
Replay the 2020 BLM riots to shut down immigration enforcement, make the country look out of control, condemn Trump and touch off a new social justice movement to win in 2026 and 2028.
But there were plenty of warnings that it was a bad idea.
Hispanics had already shown a limited appetite for open borders and mass migration. California Democrats had built their entire election strategy on the idea that Hispanics hated and feared immigration enforcement, but polls showed that they were even more tired of open borders.
Racist white liberals assumed that Hispanics (and any other minority group) were interchangeable with black people. And that the same BLM strategy could be replayed with them. But Hispanics never had much interest in occupying a professional victimhood role on the lower rung of an affirmative action hierarchy. They don’t see themselves as liberals see them.
BLM was a fake group built up by the Ford Foundation and others with ‘front-women’ who controlled nothing and focused on talking about themselves, striking Hollywood deals and buying mansions, but the name alone had a great deal of power in invoking white guilt. But Americans just don’t feel guilty about immigration the same way they do about race.
The weaponization of race with black people is effective because of guilt over slavery, segregation and racism, and then the triumphant tokenization of the civil rights movement, Hispanics never had that mythic power to make Americans feel ashamed and invested in them.
Nor do they want it.
The Ford Foundation and other radical groups built up a Hispanic nationalist movement.
Hispanic nationalists of the La Raza variety see America as a tribal enemy that is occupying the territory of their planned homeland for the master race. They don’t want civil rights, they want to escalate the conflict into open warfare. And that is exactly what happened in Los Angeles.
But most Hispanics in America feel little investment in their brand of nationalism or anti-Americanism. There is much less appetite for street violence or protests. Americanized Hispanics don’t see themselves as outsiders and more recent immigrants or migrants don’t see how protests would help them. Those who take part in the riots are a small minority with leftist or racialist politics who don’t represent a larger base willing to mobilize in the upcoming election.
And so the larger ‘army’ that showed up for the BLM riots isn’t showing up for the LA riots.
The people on the streets are mostly still the same leftist activists who show up for everything and La Raza types, along with an assortment of street thugs of various races there for the looting.
What it isn’t is a national movement.
Newsom’s rioters never found a ‘George Floyd’ movement and where BLM had been slowly built up in the national consciousness since Ferguson, the open borders movement did too much too soon. Few Americans believe that countries having borders is immoral the way that racism is. The Left rushed to sell Americans on a moral position they don’t agree with.
And one that directly harms their interests.
Before 2020, crime was not a huge concern and this enabled leftists and libertarians affiliated with the Koch network to mainstream pro-crime policies among Democrats and Republicans. But after 2020’s record crime wave, the willingness to tolerate pro-crime policies disappeared.
Open borders and mass migration were a huge issue in the election. The odds that the Left would be able to pull a ‘BLM’ over mass migration were next to none. Much as George Floyd’s drug overdose death would not have touched off outrage once crime was sky high, immigration enforcement, no matter the incident, is not touching off public outrage the way it might have.
The Democrats are knocking on a closed door and they’re still not getting the message.
And they’re victims of their own successes. After four years of non-stop anti-Trump riots, the public is sick and tired of the whole thing. Their outrage meters are overloaded. Leftists couldn’t mount much in the way of protests after Trump’s victory, his inauguration or any of his events: major media outlets lack the viewers and readers that they used to have during his first term.
Outrage fatigue among liberals is real and the riots will only make it worse.
If Gov. Newsom thought the riots would take him to the White House, he was sadly mistaken. They showed once again that California is dysfunctional, that its leaders are either complicit or inept and that the last thing they would ever want to do is turn over the country to one of them.
Finally, the 2020 riots worked because they made the country seem to be out of control. The spectacle of rioters overrunning cities and attacking the White House did not help Trump, paradoxically it helped Biden, because people wanted someone to control the chaos. Trump had the correct instincts to confront the rioters, but he was hobbled by Milley and others.
This time around, President Trump is directly confronting the rioters and that will pay off.
Including among Hispanic voters.
The only place for Governor Nuisance is in prison doing life for giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
There are plenty of Hispanics who did the right thing and became American citizens through the correct legal channels. They’re mostly successful and happy. The last thing they want is for their American dream to be buggered up by illegals, many of them criminals, aided and abetted by California’s commie governor Newsom. Newsom is a traitor to the American dream. Best way to get rid of him is hound him through the courts on charges of treason to decent Americans, Make his political life a nightmare.
True True True. My Hispanic Sister in law is pissssssed that these type of protests make her look suspicious and make her kids look bad. It is backfiring and the legal immigrants are not happy about any of this. If anything, Governor HairGel converted thousands of Legal Immigrants to the Republican party.
Most of the “Hispanics” I know just want jobs and a piece of the American pie. Normal guys and chicks.
The D-bags fucked up but I don’t expect they’ll pay for it. They never do.
Yeah, their psychology is entirely different than BLM.
Oh, thanks again Jeff. That reminded me, I spent the worst years of my life as a teenager in schools which were 90% or more black. Back then the Hispanics were even more oppressed and fewer than the whites were. So in our little “gangs” the Hispanic guys and the white guys were on the same side.
AA. Me too. Kenosha.
I attended the MOST diverse schools.
It was painful.
What’s even more interesting is that the overwhelming majority of blacks do not support the Hispanics and also want the illegals deported.
As several black friends once told me, racism against black people is much worse in countries south of the border than in America.
To me that’s understandable. In America, the only truly racist people I know or have met are white liberal democrats. Personally,
I don’t care about a person’s ethnicity or color. What I do care about is if they’re an honest, decent, respectable, hard working law abiding citizen. They’re the kind of people I like and get along with.
The few libs I know seems to always consider a person’s color first and foremost. The other attributes I cited above come last if at all.
failure for the anarchists wont deter them as long as there are democrats pulling the strings . that only 54% of americans approve of deporting illegals is an indictment on the country . add to that corporations employing them for cheap labor tells you all you need to know how corrupt everything is . they should be prosecuted for facilitating the breaking of the law by employing illegals . i wouldnt allow newsome to be a bean bag captain let alone be in charge of california . as soon as his lips move you know he is lying .
Senator Padilla tried to get things going by rushing Kristie Noem and hoping for a death by cop suicide. The reason they are going full retard is because they know this is the death of their party as they know it. Replacement level immigration was the whole game to keep them in power and keep the gravy train flowing. Without it they are doomed. Unless, of course, they became a real political party that actually represented America and their constituents. Ha, ha I laughed out loud when I wrote that.
I think he definitely pulled a stunt to get attention like a 3rd grader. He didn’t want to get shot (that’s what I wanted).
Democrats are drama-queen actors who live for the next performance – as evidenced by them pretending to need smelling salts afterwards.
The other thing they love to do is scheme what damage they can inflict on their opponents.
The Jan 6th set-up comes to mind. (The fake bombs they planted remove any remaining doubt that it was indeed a set-up.)
Newsom is a sociopath. He does not care a wit about anyone or anything other than gaining more power for himself. Newsom would gladly burn California or the nation to the ground so long as he could be in charge among the smoking ruins.
You also just described most of the Democrat Party.
Newsom is a sociopath.
I was just reading in Mommsen’s History of Rome how the bad guys pulled a similar trick with judges sabotaging the leaders, as the Democrats are doing. It is astonishing, really getting down into the nuts and bolts of Treachery in Roman history like Mommsen does, and to see the Romans did it all first before the Democrats came along. Most histories of Rome kinda stay at a higher superficial level.
In this case Sulla found a way to neutralize the judges trick. I guess it involved proscriptions against a limited number of the traitors. Enough to get rid of the hardcore enemies but limited so as to deter others without causing an uprising.
Of course there were some problems later, I haven’t gotten that far in the book 🙂
Yeah. Like the Vandals. Invited into the empire to do the elite’s dirty work, who then turned against the Roman rulers and sacked Rome. High level corruption destroyed the empire.
Most naturalized citizens are pissed off about Biden and the Democrats trying to add 20 Million illegals without propers use of the naturalization process trying to get more illegal voters. They hate America and My understand that most of the elected Democrats are Marxists. The only problem they don’t understand is that Marx was a Racist and hated the Black Husband his daughter married. So much for Legacy Media and Democrat Marxists.
Karl Marx referred to him as the “descendant of a gorilla”.
He wrote a book titled The Right to be Lazy 🙂
Governor New-Scum wants to force EV’s upon California