Nancy Pelosi joins Chesa Boudin with her very own institute at UC Berkeley.
At the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1960s, David Horowitz met Peter Collier and the two went on to establish Ramparts magazine as the flagship of the New Left. In the mid-1980s, David and Peter left the left and teamed up on Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties. A year after David’s death and seven years after Peter’s, their alma mater is striking up a new alliance that would not have surprised the authors.“UC Berkeley is joining forces with Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch a new, nonpartisan institute dedicated to strengthening American democracy and advancing solutions to the country’s most pressing challenges,” the flagship University of California campus announced last month. “The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, or NPI, will be a hub for research, teaching and civic engagement rooted in a shared commitment to advancing the public good.” That invites a look back at Pelosi’s long career.
Nancy Pelosi is the daughter of Thomas D’Alesandro, a Baltimore mayor and member of Congress. He passed away in 1987, the year Nancy first ran for Congress in California, representing part of San Francisco. In the Congressional Record in 2001, Pelosi revealed her favorite Stalinist, praising the Communist Harry Bridges as “the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century” and “beloved by the workers of this nation,” dead wrong on both counts.
As Joshua Muravchik noted, this encomium came “a full nine years after Bridges’ membership in the CP Central Committee had been revealed.” Pelosi delivered a similar encomium for Vivian Hallinan, whose husband Vincent Hallinan was Bridges’ lawyer and the 1952 candidate for president of the Communist-front Progressive Party. As David Horowitz noted in Radical Son, his own Communist parents often referred to themselves as “progressives.” The progressive Pelosi has a lot in common with the President Formerly Known as Barry Soetoro.
His beloved poet “Frank” in Dreams from My Father was the Stalinist Frank Marshall Davis, one of the few black Americans to idolize the all-white Communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union. Frank gets more ink than the Kenyan Barack Obama, who supposedly “bequeathed his name” to Barry and by the end of the book is a nameless “Old Man.” As president, the Dreams author sought to transform the United States of America into a nation where you get only what the government wants you to have.
In 2010, during debate over the bill that would become the “Affordable Care Act,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” The people might think it best to know what was in the bill before the vote. Pelosi’s obscurantist gambit deserved impeachment, but Republicans weren’t up to the task.
The House Speaker was once the aunt of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has ties to the Pelosi, Brown and Getty families. In 2020 during Covid, Pelosi got a wash and blow-out at a salon Gov. Newsom had shut down during his state of emergency. The San Francisco Democrat claimed it was all a “set-up” but locals didn’t think so. That same year Gov. Newsom partied sans mask at the upscale French Laundry. For the San Francisco Democrats, in the style of Leona Helmsley, the rules were only for the “little people.”
In his first term, President Trump cracked down on the MS-13 gang, which established a reign of terror in California, with at least 14 murders in one central valley town alone. Pelosi charged that Donald Trump, “the worst thing on the face of the earth,” was ignoring the “spark of divinity” in the criminals. UC Berkeley has already brought aboard a person of similar views.
Chesa Boudin is the son of Weather Underground terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, involved in a 1981 armored car robbery that claimed the lives of two police officers and a security guard. Chesa Boudin is named after Joanne Chesimard of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), who fled the country after murdering a New Jersey state trooper.
As District Attorney of San Francisco, Chesa Boudin proved kind to criminals, whom he portrayed as innocent victims of oppressive capitalist society. In 2022, San Franciscans booted Boudin and elected Brooke Jenkins, a prosecutor in the city’s homicide division. Jenkins proceeded to fire 16 Boudin loyalists to “restore a sense of safety in San Francisco by holding serious and repeat offenders accountable and implementing smart criminal justice reforms.” --->READ MORE HERE
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