Yeah, yeah, sounds like my efforts in the fiction realm. Good joke.
No, I’m talking about my favorite tackling dummy, Erick Erickson, who has an explanation for the California mess protests from the Democratic side:
Here’s what is really going on.
Under the United States Constitution, all persons in the United States, whether or not citizens, count for congressional apportionment. California is projected to lose between four and five seats in Congress after the 2030 Census. …
California needs as many illegal aliens as possible both as a source of cheap labor and as a way to offset projected 2030 census losses.
Because the Electoral College is calculated by adding together a state’s two senators and the total number of its House members, if California loses five congressional seats, it would go from 54 Electoral College votes to 49. Those five seats will go elsewhere, most likely to Republican-leaning states like Texas and Florida.
It is why George Soros is pouring tens of millions of dollars into turning Texas blue by 2032 — the first presidential election after the 2030 census.
It is also why California is so invested in the continued protection of illegal aliens. They need them for national political power through congressional seats and the Electoral College.
It’s a story I’ve not otherwise run across. And this snippet from one of his sources is interesting:
By either 2030 projection, were the 2032 Democratic nominee for president to carry the same states that Harris did this year, he or she would win 12 fewer electoral votes.
But so far as the balance of power goes nationally, Erickson’s making a common mistake: presuming everything else is not going to change.
But it is. How can it not?
- Trump’s reaction of sending troops in has alienated much of the nation.
- Trump’s unforced error of tariffs has alienated much of the nation.
- Trump’s implementation of the 2025 Project has alienated much of the nation.
- The rampant corruption of the Republicans is sickening to many.
- A source Erickson uses believes the Electoral votes will move to Texas and Florida, two States highly vulnerable to climate change. They may, instead, move to more lightly populated States, such as Minnesota or the Dakotas, where the climate is less cold than of old.
Still, it remains an interesting view of the real reason for the protests, verging on riots. Is it accurate? Beats me. Mobs rarely function on rational analysis. I see them more as reaction to the vicious tactics of ICE.
But show me an email with the cited strategy elucidated involving relevant parties and I can believe. Insofar as conspiracy theories go, this one’s believable.
