California is still a Republican state: Joe Mathews

Did da Vinci spray graffiti over the Mona Lisa? Did Hitchcock destroy reels of Vertigo?
Of course not. So why are Republicans waging war against California, their party’s greatest masterpiece?
For all the denunciations of California as Democratic bastion, the larger, historic truth is exactly the opposite: Modern California is in almost all respects the creation of Republicans. Even now, when Democrats hold so many elected offices, the structures of this place remain fundamentally Republic