💬 Opinion 4h ago · Scott McKay

What’s Happening in Los Angeles Is an Exercise in Brute-Force Politics

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Four years ago, Cuba-trained communist agitator, Karen Bass, beat real estate developer Rick Caruso in a 53-47 runoff, overcoming some $100 million in self-funded spending by the loser of the race. That was a fateful election in many ways, but it did establish that there were enough potential Republican votes to be had in Los Angeles that a candidate with money or a message could, at a minimum, make the runoff and potentially even win.
Those results are worth remembering now, four years later, w

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