Pinkerton: The Return of the San Francisco Democrats
The Democratic Party’s presumptive vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is the ultimate San Francisco Democrat, representing the “woke” left-libertarianism of a place where everything is tolerated except for conservatism and where Silicon Valley’s plutocrats are free to enrich themselves insulated from the deplorable riffraff they despise.
We were introduced to this style of Democrat 36 years ago.
Delivering the keynote address to the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas,
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations,
attacked “San Francisco Democrats.”
Now today, the San Francisco mindset is still, shall we say,
peculiar. It’s a city, after all, where old-money trust-fund types, addled with guilt, have joined with
nouveaux riche tech tycoons to create a bizarre overclass ideology that’s a part Karl Marx, one part MSNBC, one part Michel Foucault, and maybe even a little bit of Ayn Rand. It’s a city where the resulting demolition of middle- and working-class virtues has led to a city-wide breakdown, where homelessness and public defecation are so rampant that a local techie developed an app called, fittingly,
Snapcrap so that concerned pedestrians can request a cleanup.
And for their part, today’s Democrats are even
more San Francisco-ized.
By selecting Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden seeks to elevate a San Franciscan to the second highest office in the land, a heartbeat away from the presidency. Indeed, if the Democrats hold the House of Representatives this November, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, another San Franciscan, will be once again, as she is now, just two heartbeats away from the Oval Office.
Yes, if Biden does well this year, San Francisco Democrats will be second and third in the line of presidential succession, just behind a man who will be 78 years old on the day he is inaugurated. (Here at Breitbart News,
this author wrote recently about how vice presidents can succeed a president and thereby change the national agenda.)
Pinkerton: The Return of the San Francisco Democrats