Author : Peter Schrag
Publisher : Heyday Broadsides
ISBN 13 : 9781597144476
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (444 download)
Book Synopsis California Fights Back by : Peter Schrag
Download or read book California Fights Back written by Peter Schrag and published by Heyday Broadsides. This book was released on 2018 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Peter Schrag argues that California's role in the era of Donald Trump is twofold: to act as a leader in the resistance to the current administration, and to be held up as an alternative to the course being pursued in Washington. Given the Democratic Party's stronghold on all statewide elected offices and legislature, it isn't surprising that California has become a beacon of progressivism. But this is hardly an inevitability. California was almost where much of the GOP wants to take the nation today, leading the country in tax revolt, passage of the Three Strikes criminal sentencing law, and virtual prohibition of bilingual education in public schools. Schrag points to the state's shifting demographics and the erosion of the Republican Party in the wake of Proposition 187 as two major reasons behind California's shift to the left. It is particularly pertinent, then, that a state that formerly espoused these values now negotiates with other nations on climate control, asks its agents not to sweep courthouses in search of people to deport, and has approved major tax increases. California Fights Back gives proof that things can be better, and raises the possibility of this becoming the story of other states.