The fall of northern counties in California prefigured the fall of states we see now. Remember Ford, Reagan X2, and GHW Bush all carried California.
When I was a student in Santa Clara County in the 80s, San Francisco, Alameda, Marin, Santa Cruz we’re always loopy. However, Santa Clara, Contra Costa where this store is, San Mateo,
Solano, would still frequently send Republicans to office. Eventually all the Bay Area counties fell. Then the cancer spread inland to Sacramento, San Joaquin, and they fell. Now farther East we’re under siege here in Placer. GOP still commands a pluraity in party registration, but has dropped 11 points.
This is a simplified model as there are a lot more counties involved, and I don’t know that the tide can ever be rolled back. If anything can make a dent in the blue wall, perhaps smug suburban libs having their stores in the clean and comfortable malls looted might help
Apt description of the cancer.. If the cure isn't applied soon, the patient (city, county, state and nation) will be no more....