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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nLina Pritchard, center, claps after the national anthem at a GOP inauguration watch party at Harry\u2019s Bar in San Francisco on Monday.\u00a0Benjamin Fanjoy\/Special to the Chronicle<\/em><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n San Francisco Republicans spent Monday morning whooping and applauding in Harry\u2019s Bar on Fillmore Street, celebrating the return to office of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 100 people gathered at the bar for breakfast, coffee and, for some, cocktails as Trump\u2019s inauguration took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Philip Wing, a lifelong San Franciscan who lives in the Sunset, wore a shirt expressing a sentiment many of the attendees echoed: \u201cProud to be the Elephant in the room.\u201d With more than 80% of the city\u2019s votes going to the Democratic ticket, and just over 15.5% of voters supported Trump and Vice President\u00a0JD Vance, Republicans are vastly outnumbered in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHere, Republicans often feel in the midst of another world,\u201d Bill Jackson, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, said. \u201cToday\u2019s energizing because there is a change in administration that we\u2019ve been looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackson said that the inauguration party at Harry\u2019s was likely one of the few places in the city celebrating Trump\u2019s return to power. He, like many other attendees, was hopeful that deportations and tighter restrictions at the border would quickly be implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Jackson also emphasized that the cultural shifts to the right could be felt in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEven here, I\u2019ve been in touch with leaders in the PTA and schools here who are thinking, \u2018Maybe we\u2019ll just dial back a little bit on maybe we\u2019ve gone too far with certain kinds of DEI or certain kinds of language,\u2019\u201d Jackson said. \u201cI think that the cultural shift is impacting a wide range of people here in San Francisco, and that\u2019s going to be important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Terry Carpenter, a veteran and general contractor living in Noe Valley, watched the inauguration from a barstool. He came because Jackson, his neighbor, had invited him after realizing they were both Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carpenter is typically more concerned with state and local issues, he said, but hopes that Trump will take action on deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Carpenter typically thinks that Trump is \u201cmore bark than bite,\u201d he hopes that the president won\u2019t go too far in deporting all immigrants who came into the country without authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur country relies on immigrants a lot. And then you start deporting all of them, what are we left with?\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cWe\u2019re left with a bunch of lazy, lazy Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stricter action on immigration also brought Nick Berg into the San Francisco GOP. Berg, a newly elected delegate in the party, was not a Republican until two years ago. He said that his involvement in the campaign to recall former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin<\/a> brought him into politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Berg works in property management, and he believes that more law enforcement involved in immigration enforcement could stop the flow of fentanyl to San Francisco. While he supported Nikki Haley in the Republican primary, he still thinks Trump will be helpful in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Berg came in as a delegate to the S.F. GOP as part of a broader center shift. He\u2019s hopeful that the group can begin to mount a more substantial role as an opposition party to Democratic rule in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Republican is also excited to see deregulation for businesses from Trump, as well as what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy do under the Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jennifer Yan, another new delegate, also got into politics through the Boudin recall. She said that continued concern over public safety led to her involvement in pushing to pass Proposition 36 this fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said voters are concerned about education, crime and regulations on businesses, all of which contributed to their support of Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHis election probably represents voter frustration,\u201d Yan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carpenter is also frustrated with local politics, but curious to see what will happen with Mayor Daniel Lurie, his second choice in November. The Nebraska native doesn\u2019t mince words over state politics and Gov. Gavin Newsom, though, calling him a \u201chypocrite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith Trump and Newsom<\/a>, I\u2019m excited about watching those two clowns fight. It\u2019s more of a comedy show,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cI just think Newsom\u2019s a flat-out idiot. I can\u2019t wait for him to go because he is destroying this state on the daily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackson, who works as an education consultant, said that while sanctuary state and city policies could insulate San Franciscans from changes on the federal level, he\u2019s hopeful that San Francisco\u2019s leaders take a middle ground stance, taking part in \u201cwhat\u2019s good about Trump and his administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackson hopes that leaders \u201ctake advantage of Trump and use him as cover\u201d to enact \u201ccommon sense policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n As the inauguration ceremony began Monday morning, attendees grumbled about the televisions being tuned to CBS News, then applauded the switch to Fox News. When a reporter on TV said that former President Joe Biden had pardoned family members in a final act, one person exclaimed to another, \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Trump spoke, eyes were glued to the blaring TVs, and cheers erupted for his promises to turn toward fossil fuels and away from electric vehicle promotion, and to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs, as well as his declaration that the country would only recognize two genders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carpenter, who was excited to see the change in administration, said that he thinks often people make assumptions about his political positions because of his affiliations with the Republican Party. But he said he breaks from conservative stances on reproductive rights because he said he doesn\u2019t want any men telling women what to do with their bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe all are so divided right now. San Francisco is in a bubble,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cBeing a Republican, I get put into a box a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carpenter left the bar impressed with Trump\u2019s speech. He thought that while Trump was \u201ca deer in the headlights\u201d during his first term, he was more prepared to take action in this second term. Carpenter said he thought the president was less rambling and more angry in his speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe seemed like he was set and ready to attack the problems at hand,\u201d Carpenter said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t Trump from the first presidency. It was just day and night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reach Molly Burke (she\/her): molly.burke@hearst.com; Bluesky: @mollyburke.bsky.social<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jan 20, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Molly Burke Jan 20, 2025 (SFChronicle.com) Lina Pritchard, center, claps after the national anthem at a GOP inauguration watch party at Harry\u2019s Bar in San Francisco on Monday.\u00a0Benjamin Fanjoy\/Special to the Chronicle San Francisco Republicans spent Monday morning whooping and applauding in Harry\u2019s Bar on Fillmore Street, celebrating the… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38976,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions\/38976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}