California's Republican Party was once a force to be feared, not only in the state, but across the country.
At the same time, according to IRS figures, those leaving the state tended to be working-class and middle-class families, with the biggest net losses among the prime child-bearing cohort, those between 35 and 44 years of age-a natural Republican constituency.
This shift has also tilted the power of money in the state decisively, with Democrats regularly outspending their GOP opponents across the state.
Neither Cox nor any other Republican has made a strong, coherent case against the state's lurch toward feudalism.
On its current trajectory, California seems doomed to become a permanent one-party state, where oligarchs and their allies in the progressive clerisy-media, universities, bureaucracies-rule without effective opposition.
In the interim, California will remain hostile territory for conservatives, particularly considering that Trump is very unpopular in the state, and given the electorate's broad support-enforced by shrill, univocal media coverage-for the climate-change agenda.
Local control over zoning and land use, which has support from about 70 percent of the electorate, according to a new USC Dornsife poll, could energize voters seeking to avoid the state's ever-more intrusive planning regime.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-republican-party
At the same time, according to IRS figures, those leaving the state tended to be working-class and middle-class families, with the biggest net losses among the prime child-bearing cohort, those between 35 and 44 years of age-a natural Republican constituency.
This shift has also tilted the power of money in the state decisively, with Democrats regularly outspending their GOP opponents across the state.
Neither Cox nor any other Republican has made a strong, coherent case against the state's lurch toward feudalism.
On its current trajectory, California seems doomed to become a permanent one-party state, where oligarchs and their allies in the progressive clerisy-media, universities, bureaucracies-rule without effective opposition.
In the interim, California will remain hostile territory for conservatives, particularly considering that Trump is very unpopular in the state, and given the electorate's broad support-enforced by shrill, univocal media coverage-for the climate-change agenda.
Local control over zoning and land use, which has support from about 70 percent of the electorate, according to a new USC Dornsife poll, could energize voters seeking to avoid the state's ever-more intrusive planning regime.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-republican-party
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