Welcome to the party darling.
Romero has always been more of a moderate Dem. She did endorse Larry Elder for governor in 2021.
She and I went to Long Beach State at the same time although with 30000 students I wouldn’t have known her.
“the party that marched towards war, towards censorship, towards authoritarianism.”
We are witnessing in real time major electoral shifts taking place. The Democrats have embraced our old neo-cons and globalists, while we are welcoming anti-establishment, anti-war, pro-free speech/free thinking Democrats (and Independents) into our party.
It’s increasingly becoming obvious that the real fight is between the system with its media spokesmen and its political arm, the Democrat Party and the populists standing up against the system and the establishment that helps sustain it. The system wants forever wars, open borders, and the silencing of dissent and the managing of speech. The new populist Republicans want peace through strength, secure borders, and free and open debate where dissent is encouraged. In some ways, this is the more important fight at the moment than the old conservative/liberal divide.
The only real issue is that she is a former politician instead of active so theres not so much weight to it unless she has the gift of persuasion and can convince some of her fomer colleagues who are still serving in office to switch parties.
Its a little frustrating when they only flip after their influence and power is gone.
We could really use a nice block of 20 or 30 active elected democrat statesman to do a mutiny and flip parties before the election