What may save conservatives in California is the new law elections cannot be unopposed. So it is possible to have 2 demonratic candidates running against each other. If I lived in California I’d seriously think about registering as a democrats and the running as a conservative democrat to avoid the smears and stereotypes
Which realistically means dumb against dumber with a guaranteed level of dumb winning each time. I guess that is a form of Social Justice there.
Might work if you ran for Congress, but for all of one term before being run out. You wouldn’t last that long in the state legislature before being swiftly recalled.