Lots of people want to radically change the county. A disaster is how you get it done.
Toss everything into chaos, take away rights, lock things down. Perfect time to start making major changes to county.
History is full of examples of this.
Strong belief among many that that democracy will end after this election.
Perpetual rule by one party. Much like California.
California has free, open, and fair elections every cycle. Since they've gone to non-gerrymandered voting districts it has been obvious that the current era Republican party is woefully out of touch with most Californians. But there's nothing putting a finger on the scale for the Democrats. Republicans are free to field competetive candidates any time.
So please stop insinuating that CA is some kind of dictatorship or totalitarian enforcing 1-party rule. That's blatantly wrong, and you know it.
Edit: my great state of WA has this problem as well, it’s just not as much of a circus in practice because there’s a lot more investment in CA politics.