[Bookshelf]

17 members from California. That explains a lot.

[Fedora]

California was specifically targeted for takeover by the Communists, with Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda’s Campaign for Economic Democracy and the Institute for Policy Studies playing key roles. William Poole did an in-depth series touching on this in the early 80s, you can trace the trends identified there forward to the current context:

https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/report/campaign-economic-democracy-part-i-the-new-left-politics

https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/report/campaign-economic-democracy-part-ii-the-institute-policy-studies-network