Commentary: The New Year's resolution that can save California's shriveling GOP: Don't be evil
New Year's resolutions are what you make when you feel the need to fix yourself up and get back into shape and into the game - lose weight, exercise more, look for a new job.
What resolutions then can California Republicans make to save their shriveling party? The party that built the political cradles for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan is a toxic brand in their home state.
But to build a neo-Republican Party in California and get rid of the Neolithic one - to tweak the old phrase - it may have to be destroyed before it can be saved.
The death rattle has been 20 years in the making, from Proposition 187 to the Trump nosedive among Republican suburban voters. Mike Madrid, a onetime political director of the state GOP and a Republican political consultant for the public affairs group GrassrootsLab, drafts a short list of resolutions on what the state party must do to restore its moribund fortunes.
Q: Let's talk about what New Year's resolutions the California Republican Party should have to rebuild itself.
A: I think the first thing it needs to do is stop being mean, right? The famous Google line is, "Don't be evil."
As many good ideas as there are in the conservative movement or the Republican Party, there's no way that anybody is going to
