Over at Powerline, Victor Davis Hanson has an excellent analysis of conservative California GOP congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng (profiled on NRO by Alexandra DeSanctis). As reported here, the Heng campaign has had its ads — in part telling the story of her family’s suffering during the Cambodian Massacre — blocked by Facebook, which VDH says “must be unacceptably dissonant with the current mania for socialism sweeping the Democratic Party.” More from his Powerline article:
Elizabeth Heng is a sort of un-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Like her, she is a minority, female, young and charismatic and a first-time congressional candidate. But after that all comparisons end — and end dramatically in Heng’s favor.
Elizabeth grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Fresno, was a product of the Fresno public schools, and then went directly to Stanford where she became student body president. She later earned a MBA from Yale — all the while working on the Hill.
Unlike Ocasio-Cortez’s progressive complaints against the United States, Heng’s conservatism comes out of a deep appreciation for the sanctuary the United States offered her family and herself in overly regulated California to run T-Mobile franchises with her siblings.