The Lesser of Two Evils Is Still Evil
Guest 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 notes
- Democratic 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.
Don’t you mean the lesser of two weevils. I had to say it.
#PREACH!
This happened in Virginia, too. The VA GOP has basically handed the state government to marxists back in 2029 and does not care it abandoned its constituency.
The only group not evil is We The People.
God disagrees: 1 John 1:8-10 2021 Legacy Standard Bible If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
Unlike our blind foolishness the vastly greater Founders knew we needed Jesus as Savior. It's why I'm a Christian, not of a political party, despite leaning Republican, yet painfully aware of the corrupt reality of RINOs like the Thune monster, far worse than Fetterman, showing it's really a vile uniparty bringing us to ruin, only God our sole hope.
Why does your "fake Bible" come with a copyright?
Who owns that copyright? Is it God or man?
The love of money is the root of ALL evil.
Weak mind is the standard preset for most humans. That's why charismatic men can lead them by the nose and have them walking around repeating the books they write verbatim. Some people just cant deal with the fact that there is no way for humans to really know "the truth". They HAVE to feel they know "why".
God is Truth…the only Truth. "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Spoken by Jesus Christ and recorded in the gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 6.
They will only "get it" when Tribulation hits.
100% truth, Russ. Only a fool would downvote your comment.
The Liberal White Female in both parties is the true cause of this, they vote in the Muslims, the illegals, the communists…all because they don't like Trump and white male masculinity…
Liberals were liberal, but they have become the hard left. There haven't been any 'liberals' for many decades now. It is only the media that persists in calling them by that name, wanting them to considered tolerant and reasonable, which they are not.
Trump is a zionist, I wasted 3 votes on that TRAITOR
Israel is our only friend in the region… Would you prefer he sided with Iran or Syria?
so you would have voted for Kamala or Hillary? either would have destroyed this country and handed power to the LGBTQ mob
We have allowed our morals to decline since the beginning of the nation. Our lawlessness and lack of vigilance have allowed Communists to take positions in our government, schools, and in all facets of our society. The very fabric of our Republic is at risk. THE UNITED STATES IS HEADING TOWARD A CIVIL WAR, and neither side is going to win!
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom"
God will win, and He will soon take true believers in Jesus Christ to be with Him for all eternity. Those who reject His free gift of salvation will be left to suffer through the most horrible seven years in earth's history, the Tribulation. Please seek Jesus today, before the Rapture and the Tribulation.
I voted Republican in 2024 as the lesser of two evils, and IT is definitely evil! It's not Republicans vs Democrats, it's the people vs the Uniparty.
Well said.
When the choice in America is Neocon Zionism or Democrat Marxism, I think it’s clear we are done as a Republic
It is not a uniparty…
rinos are democrats, plain and simple…running as Republicans to be elelcted.
Blame the system that allows then to use GOP money to gain those positipons.
The GOP needs to use 'legal agreements' signed by candidates who receive money.
If a candidate does not support the Official GOP Conservative platform, they are sued for all the monies, with interest, and they agree to remove themselves, as soon as requested, from the office the GOP monies helped them to gain.
All on a legal document, enforcable by any court.
Along with this, the GOP has to loudly denounce any primary candidate who is NOT supported by the GOP.
What's the Uniparty people ask ? It's Progressives of both Parties , The Democrat Party and the other Democrat Party that calls itself Republican .
Republicans are "Democrat lite." But I will always vote Republican, not because they are so wonderful, it's because the Democrats are so much worse. So regardless of the Republican nominee, just vote Republican to block. I guess that is the lesser of two evils.
None of the democrats are any good, some are just worst than others.
I think this could end peacefully. Just have a two state solution. It has worked in other countries. The libs are crazy and determined to destroy the entire country – they have put a lot of work into this and will never stop. I have no desire to share a country with nutjobs who will turn it into an open border communist country.
I'd be all in for your solution, assuming:
1. We could determine geographic borders and how they would be established.
2. A system for keeping the Commies out of our states.
If the effort were to be made communism and socialism need to be outlawed. All democrats must voluntarily leave or be deported, no exceptions. All illegals must be deported. A wall must be built between the two countries. Due to crime being drastically lowered, police can be repositioned to guard the borders. A best value immigration system needs to be established instead letting garbage in.
There isn't a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and DemoSocialists, as every leftist variant rushes to push simple-minded and poorly-educated fools ever closer to full-blown Joe Stalin Communism. The media still wants us to refer to hardcore leftists as liberals, but there haven't been any of those around for decades now.
I stopped using the term “liberal” a long time ago. Now, WE’RE the liberals.
Christian Conservative here, Fredo. And no, I won't go fishin' in Lake Tahoe with you.
The libs have really taken control of the judicial branch while the republicans were asleep. The libs now use the courts to get their way and destroy the country.
What is wrong with people??? This org Democrat Socialists of America has been around for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time–Pelosi is a member, along with many many other democrats, and have been for decades. People/voters never looked into this before, and now everyone is acting like this a new thing. IT IS NOT!! It was always a matter of public record, the membership to the DSA, and I visited it regularly for the past 20 years to keep track of the pukes on that list.
There have been socialists/pinko commies since the 40s in our country and our govt!!!! Joe McCarthy was RIGHT and our socialist/commie govt members ruined that good man.
Indeed it has, but with the erosion of morality, widespread acceptance has not been possible. Priming society to accept the level of evil liberals are now comfortable with, they are now able to take over the party, and they will.
Yes, there is massive evil all around us, but there haven't been any 'liberals' in our midst for nearly 40 years now, as all of those have devolved into hardcore leftists and outright Communists. I wish people would stop calling them liberals, as it insinuates they are reasonable and somewhat tolerable, which they most certainly are not.
Sin legalized remains Sin…
There is "right and wrong." Everything is not relative. The Ten Commandments are not suggestions.
Establishment Democrat's platform and Socialist Democrat's platform is the same garbage from a different angle. Both hate real American patriots like us. GOD BLESS AMERICA, NOT SOCIALIST COMMUNISTS.
The lesser evil will be facing the guillotine by the greater evil that they raised and nurtured.
Exactly how I feel about our choices.
”Neocon Zionist vs Marxist Swamper” isn’t much of a choice.
No matter who you vote for, the debt keeps rising and the bombs keep dropping
Ugh.
Ridiculous generalizations of a much broader system.
That fails to be of help every time, much like every stereotype does.
Exactly brother Hoft! Why are the "choices" of a free people somehow limited to evils?!? It's unacceptable BS!
Now tell this to the canadians who are voting in this lunacy.
The Republican Party is the lesser of two evils. We can say that is still evil and we wont vote for it, but then apathy allows the greater evil to rule.
At some point you have to STOP endorsing the existence of the system itself.
Applies to the Republican Party too when you vote.
Poison a little at a time or in one dose, the end result is the same, death
What is the alternative? When your choice is only evil, by not voting for the lessor evil you give more power to the greater evil.
Evil knows no partisanship.
Amen. A foreign Satanic private corporation captured America in 1871 and replaced the lawful government. America only existed 95 years. The Corporation is posing as government, but it is a foreign occupying force, much like Israel in Palestine. There are no laws, lawful courts, etc., and the Constitution doesn't apply unless its application benefits the Corporation. The Corporation does what it deems necessary to survive and that means exerting more and more brutality as people awaken. The Corporation's authoritarian entities, like the military, are its mercenaries.
The American people will have to unite and reestablish the Constitutional Republic and lawful governments at every level.
I read the headline and thought Joe was talking about Israel and us
The Demons have one important thing in common. They are both satanic.
Yep do nothing Republicans!
RINOs like Mike Pence and John Thune and so many others, who sell out to deceive the fools who vote for them.
Once evil is accepted it grows and spreads.
Track the homosexual agenda from the 1960's to the present and this is exactly what you will see. Sodomite queers parade naked in front of children in Seattle and SF. Such events are attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Why do people take their kids to watch such evil and filth? One day God will ask these 'parents' why, right before He sentences them to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone.
The coastal sickness is in middle America as well. I was protesting a gay function involving little kids at a library in benson (Omaha) along with our planned parenthood protest group when I noticed the normal looking couples bringing their kids to the thing! Very disappointing.
We have have a do nothing republican congress. Sad to say they are the lesser of two evils.
The democrats have always been evil since their inception as witnessed by their slobbering love affair with slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, lynchings, their entitlement plantation, wars, gun confiscation Big government, corruption, election fraud, etc.
Evil is evil, and the democrats are the very epitome of evil in the US today.
It's long past time for the founding of a new, Centrist, Populist, Constitutional Party….c'mon Elon!
The GOP is almost as evil and the DFL. As long as Maga votes GOP they're voting for evil. Maga needs its own Maga party lead by righteous people, not the demons that run the GOP!!
Very nice article Joe. Most people get lost in the politics of it all and fail to realize this is spiritual warfare, the same long war against God that started in the Garden of Eden. With no static moral compass, Romans 1 is inevitably fulfilled…evil will become good and good will become evil, a complete inversion of morality. With liberalism rolling into socialism followed by full blown communism, Marx’ goal of eradicating God from society is stronger than ever. While evil does exist within the Republican Party (more so today than ever) good does as well. There is no good on the Democrat side, and the with the acceptance of abortion, homosexuality and now transing children, the inversion is almost complete. The next step is all out war and persecution of Christians. Make no mistake, this is the ultimate goal of of the DSA, whether spoken or not.
Mega amens to that.
And it will not be delt with until Tribulation.
'Liberalism' died decades ago, it is only the media that seeks to keep that word in use.
Establishment Democrat's platform and Socialist Democrat's platform is the same garbage from a different angle. Both hate real American patriots like us. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
RINOs and Democrats was what I first thought you were going to say were the lesser of two evils still being evil.
False dichotomy overplayed.
state of Maine they have to vote for who is not the worst. Well, I guess the don't have to
Where does it end? We can even look at Trumpy and scratch our heads over the fact he apparently made almost 2 billion dollars with his Trump coin/cryptoscam. Kind of makes him rejecting the 400K presidential pay very small potatoes, doesn't it?
Both sides funded by pedo zionist filth… just like hoft.
You defend the pedo elite because they attack the bad guys (Iran etc) who they programmed you to hate… clown world in both left-tard and maga camp
There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.
Hold them guilty, O God;
By their own devices let them fall!
In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out,
For they are rebellious against You.
— Psalm 5:9-10
All the ungodly!