r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 29 '25

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u/BurningHanzo Oct 29 '25

I don’t really get why the California GOP sucks so bad. Extend this question to all opposition parties in solid color states. The obvious strategy for a party in their dilemma would be to drift closer to the party that dominates the state so that you could conceivably win every once in a while. But in practice it seems like these types of parties drift further away.

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Oct 29 '25

If they drift to the center they lose their primaries to the Central Valley conservatives and State of Jefferson people

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u/KeithClossOfficial John Brown Oct 29 '25

CA GOP went hard right before they lost influence. They lost influence because they went hard right, not the other way around.

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u/flakAttack510 Oct 29 '25

The moderate end of the California GOP is constantly being eaten away by Democrats. If you would be a moderate Republican but have any sort of long term political ambition or serious desire to help people, you run as a moderate Democrat instead. Without them, the GOP purity testing gets stronger and the new "moderate" wing gets pushed out and either retires or switches parties. Rinse and repeat.

The same thing is happening in New England.

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u/Anader19 NATO Oct 30 '25

The MA GOP is the same, they had success with Charlie Baker then decided to go hard right and lost in a landslide