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An Inflection Point?
The San Antonio Express-News ran this article on their editorial page this morning. Over the last 10-15 years this paper has embarked on a pretty serious slant to the left, so I was very surprised to see it. Cliff notes: it compares and contrasts Mayra Flores with AOC and really takes AOC to task.
What seems significant to me is that Ms Flores’s victory in the Rio Grande valley is a huge inflection point for politics and now even squishy lefties can’t ignore it any longer. Otherwise they would never have printed this.
I included the pic of Ms. Flores from the article but not the pic of “Sandy Ocasio”.
I can’t get to the article. I saw somewhere that Ms Flores spent most of the next 24 hours after Dr. Jill Biden, EdD made her condescending remarks ripping Mrs. Biden on Twitter. Twitter isn’t everything but good to see her having fun and pointing out the pandering.
Yet the GOP can ignore it. Will the GOP put out a pro-family, pro-work, pro-America, pro-prosperity, pro-God platform? I don’t expect that. The GOP leadership spends too much time at a DC cocktail parties and they don’t like awkward conversations about families, work, America and God. I pray this new crop of politicians can “fix” the GOP by bringing some outside perspective.
Not just her, but Monica del la Cruz (running in TX 15), and Cassy Garcia (running in TX 28). With Ms. Flores we might very well have three female Hispanic representatives come January. Monica almost beat Vincente Gonzales in 2020 and handily won her primary. Cassy will be running against Henry Cuellar who narrowly defeated Jessica Cisneros in their run off (~300 votes). I was sad when I got moved from Monica’s district to TX 28, but am more excited every day about Cassy.
There are many problems with ordinary minority voters. First, they don’t have the dollars to replace Chamber of Commerce donations. Second, they care about those icky cultural issues that one doesn’t bring up in polite society- at least not from the ‘conservative’ side. Third, their enthusiastic patriotism doesn’t sit well with a nuanced multilateralism that would get one invited to Davos. It’s hard to imagine any group(s) of voters less compatible with the traditions of the modern GOP.
I think that, like so many of us, they are making the best of two unsatisfactory choices.
Mayra is the anti-AOC . . .
The article is behind a paywall. I can’t see it.
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Thanks for trying, but it still won’t let me read the article.
Ever since the lawsuit I hesitate to cut and paste text.