Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
State of Affairs is Take Two's weekly peek at politics in the Golden State.
This week:
It's always better to have something to be against. Once the government passed a state sanctuary, I had this instinct that told me this was going to create some local Republican heroes, because now they had something to resist.
When it was just cities that were pursuing it, Orange County cities could say, "Well, we don't want to do that," and then it's kind of just a mild a debate. [Sanctuary laws] created heroes that President Trump could ally with. Even though they were carefully crafted, to the political arena, it's just California doing something that's going to be fought against.
I do think that against mobilizes both parties. I think that's just the nature of politics.