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Even Under Trump, California (Yes, That Hellscape) Will Keep Moving the World Forward
California has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s talking about. Even if Trump wins, it will remain a golden, global example.
Back during that 2010 campaign, the newly-hired MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell picked out Harris as the candidate Republicans should fear as “the next big Democratic star” and “the female Obama.” He ran a clip of her speech at the victory celebration after she won the primary for attorney general, which I happened to see. “We are the state that creates leadership for the rest of this country,” she told a cheering crowd of Californians, “based on our belief that we can be tough, and we can be smart—and all the time be dedicated to our history, while being empowered to know our destiny.” It was rhetoric that tapped deep into a shared awareness of California’s outsize role as a trendsetter and model-builder in American life. I began to pay serious attention to this new program in the early stages of the pandemic, when it quickly organized ways around the state for volunteers to fill suddenly-emerging needs—for instance, delivering food or medical supplies to people who were quarantined or unable to go out for it, or working in shelters or other crucial facilities that had lost their normal staff.
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