To me, ignorance is failing to acknowledge one's mistakes and repeating them over and over again. This is what those who like to self-identify as "real" conservatives do. In fact, it's worse than failing to acknowledge mistakes, it's failing to even recognize them as one's own. So easy to blame some vague conspiracy by "rinos," Rove, Wilson, whoever, rather than seeing the flaws one's own actions and attitudes.
Until self-professed real conservatives learn to operate in the real world, where winning means forsaking the notion that only those who agree in total lock-step are welcome, the Left wil never again be defeated in California.