California’s progressivism is in a fever - which is signs it is very sick.
What people don’t realize is that California’s history of progressive politics is nothing new.
This state used to be a hotbed of GOP progressives like Hiram Johnson who defeated Democrat George S Patton Sr for US Senate in 1916. Earl Warren, three term Governor and bane of American conservatives when he was Chief Justice of SCOTUS. GOP US Senator from Orange County during the 1950s and 60s, Thomas Kuchel, who was bitterly opposed to Barry Goldwater and an ally of Lyndon Johnson.
Ronald Reagan was the anomaly.