"The ongoing divisions trouble longtime GOP members who are old enough to have served during the party's glory days. Stuart Spencer, a trusted political adviser to Ronald Reagan during his governorship and presidency, questions how Reagan would have fared in a California GOP primary today. Reagan, he said, was about putting together a 'big tent for Republicans,' wanting to leave room for moderates in his party who occasionally strayed from absolute fealty to conservative ideals. 'I'm not sure he could win an election here today; he wasn't that kind of conservative,' Spencer said."
Michael Leahy in The Washington Post examines the condition of the Republican Party in California.
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