Not even DiFi far enough left for Antifa California Democratic Party

Dianne Feinstein has announced that she is running for senator again from California.

At 84 years of age, Di, I think you probably should have hung them up. An 85+ year old senator from a young, vibrant state like California is as bad as a 60+ year old software engineer in Silicon Valley. Hopefully, DiFi will come to her senses and drop out of the race some time soon and spare herself the embarrassment of a humiliating defeat at the end of a distinguished political career.

That said, I also find it interesting how the left wing of the California Democratic Party has responded to Di's announcement, and seems to be turning against her not because she is too old, but because she is "out of touch with the progressive left." Dianne Feinstein has been a mainstay of California liberal politics for decades. Heck, the very definition of California liberal politics for many years has been: Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Pelosi. I can think of a lot of Democratic friends, in particular, older women voters, with whom attacks on Dianne as a right wing puppet are not going to sit well.

The fact that Dianne Feinstein, of all people, is being criticized as not liberal enough seems to be yet another sign of how out of touch the Antifa California Democratic Party is with the mood of many Americans outside the California echo chamber. Democrats are setting themselves up for a McGovern moment.

Trump should tweet:

Not even DiFi far enough left for Antifa California Democratic Party

This would accomplish several goals:

1. It would strengthen the narrative that DiFi is a Trump puppet, thereby weakening her among California voters.
2. It would strengthen the narrative that California Democratic Party has gone off the deep end.
3. It would drive a wedge between pro- and anti-Feinstein California Democrats.

Positioning himself against the Antifa California Democratic Party could turn out to work as well for Trump as positioning himself against NFL players who sit during the national anthem has. If the Democrats respond by saying, "Yes, we oppose Fascists like you.' Then, Trump responds by asking them whether that means Dems support Antifa violence against free speech on the UC Berkeley campus. If the Dems respond that they do not support that violence, then Trump should respond by asking them what they propose to do to stop it. Then, if the Dems seek to rein in the Antifa violence, Trump can claim that he has broken their movement; if they don't, every outburst of Antifa violence will simply reinforce Trump's narrative that the Democrats are just a bunch of black-shirted thugs.

In fact, Trump should come to Berkeley and seek to speak on the steps of Sproul Plaza, the cradle of the Free Speech Movement. When the protestors begin to shout him down, he should walk off the stage (just as Mike Pence walked out of the football game when the players protested during the national anthem), then announce that UC Berkeley has obviously become a "no-go zone for the President of the United States," where the ordinary rules of civility and free speech have been unilaterally suspended by the black-shirted, masked thugs of the Left, themselves the very fascists they rail against.

Such tactics could foment a civil war among California Democrats, accompanied by Antifa riots, that would move as many voters to the Right as the riots at the Democratic National Convention did in 1968.