Calif. Dem House hopeful endorsed by activist who said ‘evil Jews

A California Democrat just picked up an endorsement from a woman who posted videos about “evil Jews” and claimed part of Sonoma County is run by Jewish people. The activist, Adina Flores, also used her platform to push a classic anti-Semitic trope about Jewish control. And the House hopeful apparently saw no problem attaching himself to that. At least not until it became public.

Watch how this gets handled. The response will be a quiet distancing, a careful statement about not sharing those views, and an insistence that the endorsement doesn’t matter. No one will ask the obvious question: what did he know and when did he know it? And more importantly, why did it take exposure to make him act? That tells you everything about the party’s comfort level with this kind of hate.

We saw the same pattern with people like Ilhan Omar. There is always an excuse, a redirect, a claim that the real problem is the person who noticed the bigotry. But this one is too plain to spin. You either reject the endorsement publicly, immediately, and without reservation, or you don’t. A quiet statement after the story breaks says more than any press release.

Democrats will call themselves the party of tolerance and then keep accepting support from people who peddle Jewish conspiracy theories. Republicans get hounded for days over a retweet from an obscure account, but a sitting House hopeful can cozy up to an “evil Jews” activist and expect a shrug. Voters should remember this. When it’s their own side, the outrage goes silent. That is not a misunderstanding. That is a pattern.