It is interesting that the GOP is vanishing in CA at the same time it is basically going extinct in NY, where I grew up.
It’s certainly racial in part - only whites vote against their own interests, and there are fewer and fewer of them.
But only in part. Republicans were repeatedly warned that failure to repeal and replace Obamacare would saddle them with the blame for it even though they never wanted it and didn't cast a single vote for it. So the Stupid Party did what it always does and fired directly at its feet by not only failing to repeal and replace, but also leaving themselves open to attack concerning pre-existing conditions. The RATS had a field day out on the campaign hammering Republican candidates for out of control premiums and not covering pre-existing conditions even though they're still covered.
Worse yet, it wasn't a last minute strategy of the RATS to do this, but a sustained drumbeat early on that was never answered in any way despite hard evidence it was taking a serious toll. Republicans didn't say they inherited the mess and got no cooperation from the RATS in fixing it nor did they say pre-existing conditions are still covered. They didn't even think to go in the completely different direction of defending their House majority by pointing out all the RAT promises other than endless investigations and impeachment against the President and Justice Kavanaugh were nothing more than empty promises because the President would veto all of their garbage.
They just stood still in the middle of the ring with their hands at their sides, offering their chins for repeated shots to the head. And if that wasn't enough, they made sure they had no strategy for countering voter fraud by completely ignoring it. The results are obvious as race after race now is being snapped up after Election Day. Another fine job across the board by the RNC and the so-called Congressional leadership.
The founder's held an essential conceit, that they could craft a new, rationale form of government that rejected the tenets of 10k years of established experience in the form of aristocratic monarchy.
The appeal, of course, to the revolutionaries (similar in type to the better posters @ FR - such as yourself) floating in the 1-2 std deviation range (115-125 IQ), was why should a dissolute, wasteful and frankly embarrassing king (George III) be king? Why not form a 'more perfect union' of educated, thoughtful and rationale men to govern their own affairs?
On its face, it appears very logical, no? But what wasn't explicitly mentioned was that there was no way to prevent expansion of the franchise and dilution of the vote over a long term period. Oh, sure, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson et al issued their warnings, but it's like handing Corvette keys to a teenage and warning them about driving too fast, they knew without a constant a complete lock-down, we'd end up where we are today.
The end result is that the financial/media conglomerates set the narrative and control the process. In effect, we have a new monarchy, except the productive class are now the subservient donkeys. So, the question is: knowing what we know now, would patriots once again attempt to establish a republic, or somehow modify existing systems that protected both their civil rights and economic interests?
In the end, this isn't entirely rhetorical either, because the question will ultimately be resolved as the former masters of their domain are forced into ever narrowing political representation aka "The Reset".
Bloomberg has done to NY’s GOP what aRnie did to the CA GOP.. Overwhelmed competition with lies and colludes with the Left.