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Experts say there’s nothing amiss in the district beyond California’s typically poky counting speeds and what’s known as the “red mirage” or the “blue shift.”

Or, just maybe, it was all a mirage, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and one of its greatest players still lurking, waiting for the moment to strike.

The intention here isn’t to suggest the transformations the Chargers have made under Harbaugh are a mirage.

But even beyond that unsolvable problem, it has become clear that the decades-long Democratic Party faith in demographics as destiny was a disastrous mirage.

They defined the American Way in their own terms and brought the blessings of full citizenship to countless millions for whom it had earlier been a mirage.