“Republican prospects in November are so dire—with President Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden by about ten points and Biden’s fellow Democrats projected to win a Senate majority and expand their House majority—that speculation has begun about what a post-Trump GOP might look like. A good guess is that it will look like California’s pitifully shrunken Republican party, which today holds not a single statewide office and only seven of the state’s 56 seats in the House and Senate” writes Timothy Noah in The New Republic.
“The national GOP’s response to losing California has been to blame California. ‘It has become a fundamental tenet of the modern Republican Party to hate California,’ former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens writes in his new book, It Was All A Lie. ‘Something is deeply disturbed about a political party if it considers the most populous state part of the long list of ‘otherness’ that Republicans see as separating the true America from something dangerous and anti-American.’ The rest of the country is a few years behind California in acceding to diminishing clout for white non-Hispanics. But already the national GOP is losing its interest in majoritarian politics, investing its hopes instead in conservative judges and the Electoral College.”