Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
By Ben Boychuk
Special to The Sacramento Bee
November 21, 2018 12:12 PM To be conservative in California can be frustrating. Republicans haven’t won a statewide election here in a decade. Conservative policy prescriptions—such as they are—don’t have much of a constituency where most Californians live. And the place is thoroughly, maddeningly, insufferably, sometimes stiflingly “progressive.â€
Which, if you think about it, makes those of us on the political right something of a counterculture. Far out!
More than that, California conservatives apparently have an outsize voice in national politics. Vox, the self-styled explanatory journalism website, published a story Monday that attempts to explain how California conservatives came to form the intellectual impetus for Donald Trump’s unlikely political ascent.
Reporter Jane Coaston “traveled the length of the Golden State, stopping at conservative outpost after conservative outpostâ€â€”which seems to have spanned from the San Fernando Valley to Claremont, about 50 miles east of L.A.
Never mind the geographical quibbles. What she discovered is a conservatism of defiance, “isolation,†and “powerlessness,†articulated by people “who believe their views will never become the view.†Sounds like a bummer.
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https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article222033155.html#storylink=cpy