[going hot]

Most of the governors, senators, assembly and state senators who were republican were rinos all up and down the line to the dog catcher. The CA republican party eventually convinced enough voters to vote otherwise, and succeeded in getting rid of most of them.

Unfortunately, they were all replaced with rats.

[ansel12]

I use California versus Texas as an example of how social conservatism is required for conservatism.

California was largely republican but they were social liberals, Texas was democrat but they were social conservatives, when the hard left made its big push the Texans weren’t suited for it and rejected it but when the hard left hit California there was no serious conservatives to resist, the rinos were fairly easily to overcome.