"New York’s 3rd Congressional District, which Santos will represent if he wisely declines to resign, consists of Northern Nassau County and the northeast corner of Queens. It is a wealthy but also exceedingly woke district, which includes many Jewish professionals who, like most of the district, lean heavily Democratic. In all presidential races since 1992, except in 2004, the district has voted heavily Democratic; and the one exception provided a six-point edge to George W. Bush, who ran as a pro-Wall Street moderate Republican. Santos’ misrepresentation of himself, including his identification with the families of those who underwent the Holocaust, was well designed to please the demographic he was trying to reach. One of Santos’ advisers, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), also suggested that the candidate play up his ascertainable homosexual identity. Other counsels, in favor of mentioning Santos’ onetime heterosexual marital relationship, prevailed.
It is ridiculous to depict Santos as any kind of conservative. He is an opportunist who was elected as a congressman from a socially leftist district, where he managed to replace a liberal Democrat. The Democrats and their lackeys want Santos’ seat back and with the aid of New York Post editors, “Common Ground” Fox News celebrities, and the usually sound Tulsi Gabbard, they are trying to get the newly elected congressman to resign.
However unsatisfactorily Santos does in representing the American Right, his presence in Congress would be preferable to having anyone there whom the media would want. It would also take considerable doing on Santos’ part even to approximate the dishonesty of the party he ran against. But I do wonder, as one correspondent observed, how desperate a candidate must be to pretend to have worked for Goldman Sachs."
