WA state GOP just can’t quit what’s worst for them

When local Republicans last fall lost their third major election in a row, it prompted for the first time some open soul-searching.
Some GOPers pondered the symptoms ailing the party here.

“We’ve got to make a decision: Are we a grievance culture, or do we want to be a governing majority?” was how one local political operative, Kevin Carns, framed it.

But they also began to zero in on the precise disease.

“To be successful in Washington, you have to win in suburban districts, and President Trump is deeply unpopular in suburban districts,” state Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, said. “If we’re going to win, we’ve got to change.”