"The California Republican Party isn't salvageable at this time. The Grand Old Party is dead,"

[Demovictory9]

LOS ANGELES — In the wake of a near-political annihilation in California that has left even longtime conservative stronghold Orange County bereft of a single Republican in the House of Representatives, a growing chorus of GOP loyalists here say there’s only one hope for reviving the flatlining party: Blow it up and start again from scratch.


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“The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time. The Grand Old Party is dead,” wrote former state GOP Assembly leader Kristin Olsen, who startled fellow Republicans with a brutally frank op-ed this week saying Republicans must acknowledge their “serious problem” in California, particularly the effects of toxicity of President Trump.

GOP strategist John Weaver, who has worked California races and also has represented the presidential campaign of Ohio governor John Kasich, seconded Olsen’s view, tweeting that the effects of the Trump presidency have doomed any chance of resurrection. “In one fell swoop Trump & Republicans who willingly handcuffed themselves to him have turned Orange County into a GOP wasteland,’’ he tweeted this week. “You want to see the future? Look no further than the demographic death spiral in the place once considered a cornerstone of the party.”

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Madrid argues that many California Republican leaders remain in complete denial of the fact that their continued support of Trump presidency has sealed the fate of the GOP — and last week’s midterm elections revealed the true extent of the GOP’s rot in California, where the state party has now shrunken to third party status.

“Now, it’s just open warfare. The barbarians have broken through the gates. The army is in full retreat,’’ said Madrid, who adds there’s no hope left for a party that for years has been on a path toward destruction. “Burn it to the ground. I want to reconstitute.’’

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/17/rip-california-gop-republicans-lash-out-after-midterm-election-debacle-1000481

[Solly Mack]

1. I'll get back with you once I work up some sympathy.

Though I wouldn't hold out any hope in that happening.

[pwb]

2. As California goes so goes the rest of the country.

?

[woodsprite]

3. I'll bet Bernosky is pissed at her statement.

He (Regional Vice Chair of the California Republican Party, Central Coast) hitched his whole team to Trump. He’s probably still delusional and singing Trump’s praises.

[DetlefK]

4. The GOP-base has been whipped into such a frenzy that no moderate Republican is good enough.

First the Tea Party. Now the endless partisanship and borderline-fascism of Trump.

Seriously. Who can follow Trump? Which moderate Republican has even a chance of becoming President if the republican base thinks that THIS is normal and acceptable behavior?

[Demovictory9]

6. good point. Online sites like freerepublic... they bash Sessions and other ultra right nutties

no one is nutty enough

[Achilleaze]

5. A KGOP republican Wasteland

Americans just would not tolerate what republicans & russians are doing their their nation.

[uponit7771]

7. They still have the inland empire

[Just a Weirdo]

11. Soon it'll be blue

California us effectively kicking Rethugs out.

[hatrack]

8. " . . . have turned Orange County into a GOP wasteland."

I thought that had already happened. In fact, that was its status for some decades, IIRC.

[GulfCoast66]

9. When trump is gone. Wow.

The racist base will slink away to their bud light and civil war fantasies. And to non voting.

If we can hold the walls of the rule of law for 2 more years things might look up.

The Republican establishment can’t go back from their racist, reality show ways and not loose 20% of their voters. They are fucked.

If we can make it thru 2 more years

[Just a Weirdo]

10. I'm all out of fucks to give...

RNC will end up being being a regional party a d not of national interest

[dustyscamp]

12. The rethugs are going to be talking even more shit about California now

[moondust]

13. "Gone With The Whigs"

Coming soon to a state near you!