How I think the CA GOP should rebuild

[OSR stands with Israel]

1. First completely distance yourselves from the national party

2. Focus on the local level first: so school boards, local DA, mayoral elections, city councils, county commissioners, and state legislature  and start to build up the bench 

3. For Gubernatorial elections run Kevin Falconer both in 2022 and 2026 in order to slowly increase the GOP numbers in statewide elections too but dont go all in one winning those. Just use those runs to help build up your ground game operations, moderinize the party, and create a new GOP image which should help in your goal for point two

4. At the local level having the gop come up with innovative conservative based solutions for issues such as housing, climate change , education , criminal justice reform etc

5. Once you do that the CA GOP should be ready to make a  real comeback in the 2030s

[OSR stands with Israel]

1. First completely distance yourselves from the national party

2. Focus on the local level first: so school boards, local DA, mayoral elections, city councils, county commissioners, and state legislature  and start to build up the bench 

3. For Gubernatorial elections run Kevin Falconer both in 2022 and 2026 in order to slowly increase the GOP numbers in statewide elections too but dont go all in one winning those. Just use those runs to help build up your ground game operations, moderinize the party, and create a new GOP image which should help in your goal for point two

4. At the local level having the gop come up with innovative conservative based solutions for issues such as housing, climate change , education , criminal justice reform etc

5. Once you do that the CA GOP should be ready to make a  real comeback in the 2030s

But how do they do that? Even if Republicans somewhat recover in the suburbs post-Trump, the party's brand has become so toxic in most of the state.

Well 2-5 is needed to detoxify the brand .


As for 1 what needs to happen is that you need to make it clear the CA GOP is for CA only and to do that you can actually completely separate out the CA GOP organization .

- One organization focuses solely on CA local and statewide races along with CA ballot measures and doesn't get involved in any national races including the ones for the house and senate

- The other focuses solely on electing more Republicans to congress


These two organizations need to be independent of each other as well

[OSR stands with Israel]

1. Completely distancing from the national party is impossible. Besides, California Republicans have moved further right just like the national party and are quite extreme.

2. There are plenty of local offices controlled by Republicans, but extremism has been a problem there too. Some local Republican office holders have either switched to Independent or Democratic and some that have not switched just don't engage in local Republican circles. Local parties have been taken over by extremists and have few resources.

3. I'm not sure Faulconer would waste time running to not win an office as opposed to just retiring or taking a private sector job or state level appointment.

4. As conservative as the remaining Republicans are in the state there isn't going to be much innovation. They like doing things as they were done in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

5. The best chance the GOP has at a comeback in statewide office is if Democrats have too many candidates running and get locked out of the top two.

Things can always change if you come up with a plan, the national GOP in 1936 were in worse shape(see below) but eventually came back though it took 16 years. Similarly, the CA GOP should come up with a 20 year plan


House Seats for National GOP after 1936: 88/435 = 20.23%
House Seats for CA GOP currently : 18/80 = 22.5%

Senate Seats for National GOP after 1936: 17/96 = 17.71%
Senate Seats for CA GOP currently: 11/40: 27.5%

National Popular vote for GOP  in 1936 Presidential Election : 36.5%
Statewise Popular vote for GOP  in 2018 CA Governor Election: 38.1%

[OSR stands with Israel]

Sorry OSR, not gonna happen

I mean by 2034-2042