California’s next political war will be blue on blue, not red

At the risk of stating the obvious, the sky is blue, death and taxes are inevitable, and California is a very liberal state. At the risk of angering my readers, I have even worse news: California isn’t secretly Republican.

We don’t need last week’s gubernatorial election to prove my point. And the results up and down the Golden State merely buttress it. Of course, as I write, we don’t have the final results for every race. We don’t need them, either. We have the bulk of the tally, plus the benefit of elections and public opinion polling from the past 20 years. Time flies, even when you’re losing.

The voters have been telling Republicans who they are for a generation. Republicans might begin to rebuild by believing