David Jariustokaeutulelei Tangipa is a first-generation American of Polynesian ancestry. In 2024, at the age of 28, he was elected to the California State Assembly as a Republican. And he has been appalled to learn just how much the Democratic legislature is marinated in identity politics.
Members of the assembly jostle to inject race into every debate. Last fall, they easily passed a bill to allow colleges to favor the descendants of American slavery for admission, as well as a bill to begin a restitution process for victims of racially motivated uses of eminent domain. These bills were so radical that Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed them. (Though he did sign into law another bill, instituting the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery, which will attempt to outline a structure for future reparations payments.)
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