Commentary: My dad, Steve Hilton and tacos. What could go wrong?

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Set us as preferred My dad howled with laughter when I told him we were going to eat tacos with Steve Hilton.“Isn’t he with Trump?” he said in Spanish.Indeed! But the former Fox News host has also staked his chances of becoming California’s next governor on courting Latinos with a gospel of affordability, lower taxes and the California Dream.He even took out full-page newspaper ads arguing that haters of President Trump could choose him over his Democratic opponent, Xavier Becerra, and still be able to sleep at night.“He’s going to say whatever suits him,” Papi cracked as we waited for Hilton at King Taco’s flagship restaurant in East Los Angeles on Thursday.

We were dressed in our rancho libertarian best: jeans, embroidered leather belts, pearl snap shirts.Suavecito pomade for me, alligator boots and a 100X gray Stetson for my dad.Hilton arrived like he was ready to party in Hermosa Beach, in a black open-collar shirt that was either seersucker or unironed, dark blue slacks and white Adidas with orange ombre stripes.

He wore a “Charlie Kirk” wristband and another reading “Save Girls.”With less than two weeks before the primary election, Steve Hilton is leading in the polls for governor, and Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt is making the city’s progressive class sweat.In May, I challenged him to have tacos with my dad and me after the internet mocked him for declaring that the hard-shell tacos at a Del Taco in Barstow were “street.” An undeterred Hilton doubled down on courting Latinos after that faux pas, visiting East L.A.

multiple times and even serving tacos after a lowrider cruise.“Things haven’t got a lot better [here], with a lot of poverty and crime and concern about, you know, just the daily things that are just a hassle for everybody,” Hilton said as we waited in King T...