Eric Swalwell: The Authoritarian Wolf in Moderate Clothing

Californians got tired of watching shoplifters walk free and drug dealers kill our kids. That is why we passed Proposition 36. It was a simple mandate to bring back felony penalties for repeat theft and deadly fentanyl. Even Eric Swalwell voted for it. But don't let his vote fool you. Supporting a popular law during an election year is easy. Fighting to actually fund it when your political allies want it to starve is hard.

Swalwell wants you to look at his Prop 36 vote and forget the last decade of his record. He wants you to forget that he has consistently boasted a near-perfect rating from the ACLU. This is the same organization that is currently lobbying to block the implementation of the very law Swalwell claims to support.

It is also the same organization that publicly opposed Senate Bill 1414. That bill had a simple moral objective which was to make purchasing a child for sex a felony. The ACLU fought to keep it a misdemeanor because they argued that punishing the buyers of children would "harm the system."

We are currently watching Washington D.C. grapple with the fallout of the Epstein files. We are seeing what happens when a culture of powerful elites decides to look the other way and protect predators rather than the vulnerable. Yet here in California, Eric Swalwell continues to align himself with special interest groups that prioritize the comfort of criminals over the safety of our kids. You cannot claim to be a champion of children while seeking the approval of those who fight to keep sex predators out of prison and free to roam our neighborhoods.

Swalwell’s extremism extends far beyond his choice of political allies. It reaches into how he views the law-abiding citizens he seeks to govern.

In February 2022, Swalwell proposed expelling all Russian students from U.S. universities. This proposal demanded the collective punishment of innocent young people for the actions of a foreign dictator. The proposal was so severe that the Japanese American Citizens League issued a statement condemning it. They compared his rhetoric to the alien enemy logic used to justify the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

This is not an isolated incident. We hear a lot of talk about threats to democracy. Yet Eric Swalwell is the only major candidate who has openly fantasized about using the American military against his own constituents. When he ran for president in 2020, he called for the mandatory government confiscation of legally owned firearms. When a citizen challenged him on social media regarding enforcement, Swalwell didn't defend the Constitution. He threatened violence.

"And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes."

That is not the language of a public servant. That is the language of a tyrant who views citizens as subjects.

The next governor of California cannot be a tourist who visits the state to audition for cable news. It cannot be a career politician who discovers common sense only when an election is around the corner. We need leadership that understands public safety is not a political game. We need a governor who will protect our children from predators and our citizens from government overreach. Eric Swalwell has proven he will do neither.