A week ago, while on my morning walk in San Diego, I got to chat with two random California voters, fresh-faced young adults, both very pretty, who appeared to be arguing when I approached from the sidewalk. I had planned to walk by without looking, but they looked at me and explained that they were discussing ‘him.’
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The clear-skinned black girl, who sported blue-dyed long braids like Nikole Hannah-Jones’s daughter, asked if I knew who that was, and just intuitively, I knew: President Trump. Two nods of agreement. Her companion was a blonde, curly-haired fair-skinned blue-eyed girl who agreed, too. Both wore impeccable makeup, even though it was about 8 in the morning on a Sunday. They seemed to be roomates in the house they were in front of.
Without figuring out what my politics were, they told me what they hated about him: Gas prices, housing prices, the cost of living, affordability. They also hated the Iran war, which was attacking a country that meant no harm to us. It seems the media schooled them well on their political terms, but very likely they saw the higher costs with their own eyes, too. The white girl also hated Trump’s ICE raids of innocent people just living their lives and being ‘kidnapped; and it included kids. The black girl nodded in agreement. I joined in and said I hated what was going on in Venezuela — why are we supporting a dictatorship that wrecked the country instead of the person who won the election? And I wasn’t happy about the stories of business profiteering from Trump allies, either, cronyism is cronyism. That made them say they ‘liked me,’ and they liked me a lot, we were all the same.
I wanted to hear what they were saying, though, because I cannot understand how anyone would vote for Democrats after the Joe Biden experience. The white girl said she hated Trump but she liked Gavin Newsom. I told her to hold on — this guy and his policies were why our state was so expensive, noting that Arizona people pay four bucks for gas while we pay six. She paused a little.
And it occurred to me that they didn’t attribute any of the state’s high costs to the state government, they liked the things the state government officials said, blaming Trump, as if that affirmation of their feelings about Trump automatically made them friends of the voters, and friends of them.
The theme recurred again and again through the conversation. And it occurred to me that that is why California’s Democrat local pols blame Trump for everything, and squelch any good idea from a Republican as ‘Trump.’ or Trump-endorsed. Nithya Raman, running for mayor of Los Angeles up north, made these kinds of statements against Spencer Pratt likely for this reason. Democrat Marni von Wilpert, who is running against longtime San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, for a congressional seat, is doing the same thing. Desmond, who has done years of good work in the local communities, often on a bipartisan basis, has probably never even met Trump. Same with Spencer, who had no connection to Trump during his race for mayor. They do it because of voters like these.
So now with today’s California news, here is where the real higher costs of living are coming from which can be pinned squarely on the blue-state ruling Democrats of California:
Start with gas again:
It’s absolute insanity. We produce gas here in California, ship it to Arizona, and they sell it for $2 LESS per gallon than we pay here. That extra $2? Democrat policies making gas more expensive here than any other state! Enough is enough, California!! https://t.co/2MFsDnfGX9
— Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) October 10, 2026
That’s local Democrat policy, nothing to do with President Trump.
Here is another from the California Post:
California boasts some of the highest retail electricity rates in the country, second only to Hawaii, despite being the fourth-largest electricity producer.
California’s high energy prices are the direct consequence of a misguided policy that pushes renewables ahead of fossil fuels. An “all of the above” approach that combined fossil fuels with renewables would naturally lower prices, prevent rate spikes, and ensure reliability. Such a balance is sorely needed.
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Since the 2002 inception of California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which mandated that renewable energy would encompass 20% of all energy production in the state by 2017, the goalposts have moved further to the extreme.
Like paying high electricity prices? Then keep right on voting for Democrats who say any effort to change anything is ‘Trump.’
This one, too, a different story in the California Post:
Many California farmworkers will see a wage increase next year under a recently signed state law — but farmers are warning that Californians could be paying more for their food as a result.
The new minimum-wage law will boost pay for farmworkers to $19.75 an hour under the federal H-2A guest worker program, in which foreign workers are brought in for temporary or seasonal jobs. It also applies to domestic farmworkers doing similar jobs.
Higher food prices are coming, and it’s nothing to do with inflation, which the Trump administration is tackling at the monetary and fiscal levels. No, this is policy, same as the electricity prices, change the policy and the prices go down.
This one is particularly dreadful, because not only will more farms shut down and move to Texas — we’ve already lost the big Del Monte peach canneries and farmers are leaving their crops to rot, as well as many wineries, we are now going to see more automation, more farm production moving to Mexico, where the explosive diarrhea epidemic originated likely due to someone going to the bathroom in the irrigation water, and more cartel takeovers of Mexican produce as it grows more lucrative with California’s farms shutting down or moving to other states. We are also likely to see more labor unrest as jobs grow fewer and Mexican laborers are likely to be chased out by rival unions or get ICE sicced on their farms for illegal workers.
All of that is policy, and all of it will make California more expensive. Given how much California produces, it may be countrywide.
That is nothing to do with Trump, and everything to do with Trump’s haters on the Democrat side. They are responsible for higher costs and they don’t even have their hands on a money-printing machine to create inflation.
I wish I could see them again to show them how a vote for Steve Hilton will actually lower their living costs and allow them to buy a house. But it’s hard to convince people when they’ve got so much loaded up in their minds against Trump. It’s just sad.
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