In California Republicans have tried the “we should just do whatever Democrats do” thing. It doesn’t work.
Democrats are always going to be better at playing that game than Republicans.
Amen.
You can see it. I can see it.
The GOP kingmakers either can’t see it or don’t care because all they care about is keeping power for themselves.
Also on the subject of California:
It would have helped to have an extra million popular votes in California, and I think they would have been possible to get, but the Republican party has intentionally abandoned the state and told us to not bother voting.
We are getting starved out nationally. I think the focus on only the handful of swing states is killing us. Ever since 2000 or possibly before we are just obsessing about the details of how the electoral college works. Think of what an election looks like where we nationalize it and there is a huge popular margin of victory for the Republican, regardless of the electoral college outcome. Do that a few times and the psychology of things will change a lot.