Huntington Beach has been a MAGA stronghold. Chris Kluwe has other plans.

Chris Kluwe swears that, even now, he doesn’t want to be a politician. He just wishes that everyday things in his longtime hometown of Huntington Beach made sense.

t’s an increasingly tough ask.

Huntington Beach, long known as a quirky surfside town where folks with unique (and sometimes ugly) ideas could go to bake quietly in the sun, has become a national political lightning rod since its Democratic-leaning city council was swept out by a wave of pro-Trump politicians who proudly bore the Make America Great Again label — red hats and all. The nearly 200,000-person city has been seemingly roiled by one controversy after another over the past decade, from attempts to ban common library books to a moratorium on flying Pride flags on city grounds. Officials have fought state leaders for years over housing and have even come under fire for the way the city structures its voting process.

Kluwe, a former National Football League player mostly with the Minnesota Vikings, has watched the wobbliness of his local government from his own front porch. “I’ve been in this district for the majority of my life,” Kluwe tells SFGATE by phone in mid-June.



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