Swalwell’s fall from grace is all about the 2026 California gubernatorial election and how the corrupt Democrats in that most infected of all states (I know it’s a close call) installed what is called a “jungle primary” in which all candidates in all political parties are tossed into a single primary election, and the two candidates who emerge with the highest percentage of the primary vote advance to the general election. They did this to rig the system and ensure that it would be possible, even likely, that no Republican would be on the ballot for Governor at all.

Remember, this is the party that ran in 2024 on “saving democracy” and that currently opposes voter ID.

In a wonderful example of being hoisted by one’s own petard, they ended up with eight Democrat candidates and two GOP candidates in the primary, with a real possibility that two Republican candidates might emerge as the two top primary winners, guaranteeing that a Republican will be elected Governor in November. Oh, can’t have that…so the only way to make sure the GOP has no chance now is to eliminate the support that had split the votes for one of the two leading Democrat candidates, and thus ensure that support would consolidate behind the remaining poll-leading Democrat, thereby guaranteeing that at least one Democrat is on the ballot in November.

Brilliant!

What have the Democrats done any time they want to slime someone into political and public purgatory for their own benefit? Why, recruit some cooperative partisan operative with lady parts to come forward at just the right moment with a sexual misconduct accusation from the distant past! They did this to Clarence Thomas. They used this device on Donald Trump. Not only did they use the tactic on Brett Kavanaugh, but Eric Swalwell was one of the most vocal voices in the anti-Kavanaugh mob.

Of course, it is extremely likely that Swalwell is also guilty of repeat sexual misconduct, because Swalwell is a) an unethical idiot and b) can’t be trusted. I admit to not devoting enough space on Ethics Alarms chronicling this, though I did a quick summary in a 2022 post after he tweeted that it was ridiculous to let parents decide how their kinds should be educated over the rule of “experts”—you know, the teachers that pimp for critical race theory, socialism, “stolen lands” gibberish and changing their gender identities:

This really stupid tweet is typical of Swalwell [but] isn’t even his worst. In 2018, the same year he had the gall to announce he was running for President, Swalwell tweeted that any effort by gun owners to oppose gun confiscation by the federal government would be met with nuclear bombs. In another tweet, he wrote sarcastically, “It’s not like separation of church & state is in the Bill of Rights or anything…” This year, he tweeted, “The Republicans won’t stop with banning abortion. They want to ban interracial marriage.” When I wrote last week about how there were so many unethical people running for office in 2022 that I couldn’t possibly narrow the list of the most unethical down to a mere dozen as I have in the past, I forgot to mention Swalwell. This the only member of Congress who somehow managed to have a sexual affair with a Chinese spy (in 2015, before he was elected to the House). Nonetheless, he was re-elected in his California district by a landslide. What Swalwell misses in all aspects of life and logic cannot be catalogued without devoting volumes to the task.”

Swalwell is probably not innocent, but until now it has been in his despicable party’s interest to let dumb, woke voters inflict him on the nation anyway. Now it isn’t, so Democrats are siccing all of their henchmen, henchwomen and henchhacks on him at once; even the Manhattan D.A.’s office.

I would say it is obvious, but that’s too embarrassing, since I missed it.

Long-time readers here will recall that I went through almost the whole 2016 Presidential campaign writing that no matter how unethical and corrupt Hillary Clinton was, I would swallow my bile and vote for her rather than a man I had concluded was unfit to serve in all respects, especially ethically. Then, at literally the last moment, as the evidence mounted showing how the party had rigged the primaries, cheated in televised “townhalls” and worse, I concluded that the choice was really between one untrustworthy man and an entire untrustworthy, indeed undemocratic political organization. I changed course and voted for a write-in candidate.

Since then, Trump has surprised me and risen in my estimation while the Democratic Party has revealed itself to be more and more repugnant and dangerous. As much as Eric Swalwell should never be permitted within miles of a job requiring the public trust, his vile character has nothing to do with why his party has turned on him.

The Democratic Party’s vile character is the explanation.