Being right in left-wing California

It’s pretty hard to be a Republican living in California. It’s a politically lonely life. I moved from Texas to California last September because I’m getting very long in the tooth and my daughter wanted me close by. In this new environment I have been bludgeoned by the reality that the political zeitgeist is governed by three things: redistribution of income, identity politics (tell me who you are and I will tell you how we will treat you) and narrow diversity (only from the s