It’s a stupid idea, anyway. Primaries should be closed so that party members can choose their nominees.
I’ll go out out on a limb and guess that the Times didn’t have a problem whenever two Democrats wound up being the general election choice, but now they’re all worried about how Democrat voters won’t have a chance to knock off a Republican in a swing district.
They’re not even subtle. They should just call for the banning of the Republican Party. You know, because it harmful — “The Republican Party is known by the state of California to... blah, blah, blah.....”
As I posted earlier, as soon as the Jungle Primary starts denying Democrats a place on the ballot of “important” races, the Democrats will sue (and a judge will agree) that the Jungle Primary effectively takes away the votes of minorities. I believe the same of the so-called state compact end-around the Electoral College. As soon as it denies a Democrat the Presidency, the Democrat-dominated state legislatures will simply annul their states’ participation and award the electoral votes to the Democrat who won their states’ votes. They are playing a “heads I win, tails you lose” game here.