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Few, if any, major Democratic elected officials have navigated the politics of the past few years as deftly as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
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officials → elect → Shapiro
Shapiro easily won three straight statewide elections in a state that voted for Donald Trump two out of three times, and elected a Republican Senator, too.
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Shapiro is obviously smart.
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Shapiro → win → Stories
He probably has the highest IQ of any statewide elected Democrat in America.
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He → have → America
He’s also shrewd.
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He → ’ → ?
He has been pragmatic: Remember he threw out all sorts of regulations and normal constraints in order to repair a collapsed highway overpass in a matter of days.
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he → remember → days
While other prominent Democratic governors like Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz went full-woke in recent years, Shapiro has avoided that, while successfully handling pressure from his party’s radical left wing.
This all changes now.
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This → go → wing
Shapiro easily won reelection and Pennsylvania Democrats, who already controlled the state House of Representatives, have won the state senate.
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who → win → senate
This gives Shapiro a governing trifecta — and there’s plenty of reason to believe this will be bad for Shapiro’s aspirations for higher office.
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this → give → office
Shapiro has made moderate policies in the past, but he has also buckled in the face of his party’s special interests.
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he → make → interests
Recall in 2023, when he backed down from his support of school choice because the teachers unions, who have the Democrats’ in a vicegrip, objected.
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who → recall → vicegrip
Recall earlier this year, when Shapiro was one of the biggest champions of data centers, and then this fall, he did a 180.
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he → recall → 180
Shapiro is talking today about transit and minimum wage.
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Shapiro → talk → transit
But that’s not what his party’s base, and much of his legislature will care about.
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much → ’ → legislature
Expect a hard tack to the left for Pennsylvania in the new year, and expect Shapiro to meekly go along.
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Shapiro → expect → year
The special interest groups and the more ideological lawmakers will all push Shapiro to pass radical legislation on race, transgenderism, sex-ed in schools, welfare, prosecuting Republicans, persecuting religious organizations, and who knows what other issues have been percolating up in the liberal group chats?
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issues → push → chats
Sure enough, amid a Blue Wave, Shapiro is already looking more like a weather vane.
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Shapiro → look → vane
Shapiro, who has been ruthlessly attacked by his party’s anti-Israel Left, just went ahead and endorsed the most anti-Israel statewide Democrat in the country, Abdul el Sayed.
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who → attack → country
And just a couple of days ago, Shapiro ostentatiously embraced transgender ideology in its entirety.
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Shapiro → embrace → entirety
Promising to protect “trans children” is saying that some boys are really girls and some girls are really boys.
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girls → promise → children
Also, if you assert the existence of “trans children” you are implicitly endorsing harmful interventions such as puberty blockers.
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you → assert → blockers
Shapiro, at the first bit of pressure from the Left, has rushed in that direction.
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Shapiro → rush → direction
He sees this, no doubt, as a matter of self-preservation.
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He → see → preservation
But it probably won’t make any easier his path to higher office.
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it → make → office
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