California governor says Republican Party is headed 'into the waste bin of history'
Of course, it's already there in California.
The Republicans will never be a factor in California state politics again.*
Nationally?
Not so fast.
What Newsom's comment really illustrates is (again) how divided the nation has become. There's the left -- the democrat-communists -- vs. the right (traditional-minded Americans, largely coalesced into the Republican party).
The "red states v. the blue states" will soon become the twenty-first's century of "the blue and the gray". We're about where the USA once was in 1855-56, perhaps even later.
Yet-to-come: "the spark" that turns the cold conflict into a hot one.
I've predicted before, this "spark" may well end up being the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on "National Popular Vote" when that issue is finally thrust before them (not "if", but "when"). It will become the "Dred Scott decision" of the 21st century.
If the Supreme Court upholds the right of the blue states to enact the compact of NPV, the only recourse the red states will then have against overwhelming dominance by the blue (democrat-communists) will be "the way of The South" in 1861 -- or something close to it.
Either they risk that.... or "submit" (muslim style) to the diktats of the leftist/communists.
If it comes to that, the only course for the red states will be to literally crush the blue states and cities into submission, and then apply a "radical reconstruction" to them, a la 1865-1876.
That's where the * comes in, up above.
That's the ONLY way California will ever come to be "Republican" again.
One final thought:
To steal a phrase uttered by a French king:
"After Trump, the deluge..."