The Lesser of Two Evils Is Still EvilGuest post by Chris Bish.California Republicans should not be left choosing between bad Democrats and worse Democrats.California Republicans are being forced into a conversation no serious opposition party should ever have to entertain:Which Democrat is less dangerous?At a recent GOP meeting, establishment Democrats like Jared Huffman, Ami Bera, Mike Thompson, Doris Matsui, and Josh Harder came up in that context. Not because Republicans like them. Not because they suddenly discovered fiscal restraint, parental rights, public safety, or common sense.They are Democrats. They helped build this mess.But the socialist wing of the Democrat Party is no longer whispering from the cheap seats. It is organizing, winning, and moving from nuisance to threat.So Republicans are being told to consider establishment Democrats as the firewall.That is not strategy. That is managed collapse.Let’s stop cleaning up the language. The Democratic Socialists of America says working people should run “the economy and society,” and its platform calls for workers to be put in charge of government. That is not moderation. That is socialism with a press team.Socialism is the road. Communism is the destination.The slogans change because the old word scares voters. The theory does not: weaken private ownership, expand government control, centralize power, punish profit, and call it justice.So yes, establishment Democrats are bad.The socialists are worse.But the real scandal is not that Democrats are fighting over how far left they can go. That is what Democrats do. The scandal is that the California Republican Party has made itself so weak that “vote for the less insane Democrat” is now being treated like survival planning.That should enrage every Republican voter in California.Republicans should not be forced to choose between Democrats who helped break California and socialists who want to finish the job.And yet here we are.Even Republican consultants know the brand is damaged. One Republican candidate says a top California GOP consultant, reportedly connected to the Garvey campaign, told her not to list that she was a Republican. Do not use the endorsement. Keep it off everything if you want to win.That is not clever. That is a confession.When your own consultants tell candidates to hide the Republican label, the problem is not the candidate. It is the party.Kevin Kiley proved the point. Once treated as one of the California GOP’s success stories, Kiley announced in March 2026 that he was leaving the Republican Party and serving as an independent, while still caucusing with Republicans. He did not stop voting with Republicans. He stopped carrying the label.That should have ended the denial.The voters did not destroy the Republican brand in California. The grassroots did not destroy it. The people who managed the party into irrelevance did that.Now those same people want Republicans to accept political triage as strategy.No.Voting for establishment Democrats to stop socialists may be the lesser of two evils in some races, but let’s not pretend it is a win. It is an indictment.It means the Republican Party failed to recruit, build, fund, protect, and stand behind credible candidates. It means the party spent too many years treating grassroots fighters as annoyances while consultants cashed checks for polite losses. It means the CAGOP confused access with influence, survival with success, and losing slowly with leadership.California does not lack Republican issues.Voters are angry about crime, schools, housing, taxes, water, energy, homelessness, election integrity, and the cost of living. The issues are sitting there, gift-wrapped by Democrat failure.What California lacks is a Republican Party capable of converting that anger into power.That is the reckoning.If Republicans are now being told to vote for establishment Democrats to stop communists, then the party does not need a rebrand.It needs an overhaul.New leadership. New infrastructure. New discipline. New respect for the grassroots. New candidate recruitment. New voter registration. New election operations. New consultants, or fewer of them.Because the lesser of two evils is still evil.And a Republican Party that leaves its voters choosing between bad Democrats and worse Democrats should stop congratulating itself for being in the room.It should be ashamed it failed to build the alternative.Source notesDemocratic Socialists of America: “working people should run both the economy and society democratically”; DSA platform materials on workers and democratic control.ABC7 News / Associated Press, March 2026: Kevin Kiley announced he was leaving the Republican Party and serving as an independent while still caucusing with Republicans.The post The Lesser of Two Evils Is Still Evil appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.