Eric Swalwell’s Fall From Grace Was by Design

Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.

Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his ­remains.

Swalwell’s clinical political eradication this week tells you everything about the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and efficiently it will move to keep power in the state it has controlled for 15 years and run into the ground.

California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of the Democrats’ vast patronage system, fueled in part by illegal migration and social services fraud that has ripped tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars off the taxpayers and recycled it through unions and “grassroots” donations back into the party.

That’s why Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, calls California the “kingdom of fraud” as he confronts massive organized ripoffs of Medicaid, home health services and hospice care.