Anyone who's been around for 'many' decades

like I have, realizes that California leads the nation in trends. What's hot in CA, gradually makes it to NE and beyond. That's why this 'letter to the editor' from a Californian is interesting and prophetic, after CA 'emerged from the dead' after their Repub Gov was replaced by a Dem, and they went from 'worst to first'.

Today, the GOP brand is toxic to most Californians, and they are practically an endangered species in this state. You can be a superb GOP candidate and still lose to a mediocre Democrat. In fact, it happens all the time.

And that’s why I doubt that Trump’s carnival show will find much of an audience in California. After all, Democrats couldn’t be happier about how the last 20 years turned out. But a lot of Republicans got burned the last time an ethnic arsonist came here to play with matches. And hopefully, many of them will be leery about once again going near the flame.

Otherwise, there’s another concept that California Republicans might as well get used to: extinction.

Like I said before, the Pub elephant should be replaced with a mammoth. Once mighty, now irrelevant.