The GOP needs better candidates and an agenda beyond kowtowing to Trump
— who excited the most ardently conservative Californians but were too inept or extreme for a majority of voters to swallow.
“A Democratic screw-up would open the door,” said Jack Pitney, a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College and former Republican National Committee staffer. But even then, he said, “It takes a quality Republican to walk through it... Somebody who’s qualified, reasonable and pays attention to governance.”Harris is just the latest vice president to learn the job is ripe for ridicule.
“The Republican Party is now a counterculture movement,” said Mike Madrid, a former political director of the California Republican Party and co-founder of“It’s anti-establishment and anti- the institutions that dominate society, like media and academia and government. It’s more about tearing down institutions than building them up or partnering to improve them.
For the good of the GOP — and the good of California — Republicans need to stop their self-gratifying but ultimately self-defeating political behavior. Quit pushing