President Trump's victory was a direct rebuke to the wealthy and powerful liberal enclaves that insist they ought to be running America. And that in many ways do.
The "Resistance" and its associated media coup is the proposition that they are powerful enough to overturn the results of a presidential election that they lost. And in this case, a test to see whether the Bay Area can buy a Georgia election.
Ossoff's backing comes from a handful of Bay Area counties. He doesn't even live in the district he's running to take over. But the arrogance of the Bay Area is in the conviction that with enough money and media, it can control the outcome anywhere.
The left often likes to talk about how democracy gets hijacked. Even as it insists on hijacking it.
This is what the Handel-Ossoff election looks like.
Georgia congressional candidate Jon Ossoff, who’s turned his special election race next week into a referendum on President Donald Trump, reported receiving almost as much money from the Bay Area than from the entire state of Georgia over the last two months.
He also reported receiving almost nine times as many individual donations from California than from Georgia, according to federal campaign finance data released last week.
In total, his campaign raked in $15 million from March 29 to May 31, for a total of over $23 million — a haul that has made this the most expensive House race in U.S. history.
The 30-year-old candidate, a documentary filmmaker with no experience in elected office, is running against Republican Karen Handel, a former secretary of state in Georgia. She has raised just $4 million.
Whatever the outcome, this is really about the disproportionate power and influence of a wealthy left-wing establishment on the rest of the country.
The Bay Area no longer thinks that it should just run California, but America.