Well, well, well. All the 2020 talk of the Democrat wave in the House, just like 2018 Republican talk of tsunamis, has come to naught. What is it with water-based meteorological political metaphors? Do any of them ever work? Many we should go back to landslide and earthquake metaphors. They seem slightly less bonkers.

FNC: “Despite Democrats’ confident predictions of a ‘Blue Wave’ sweeping statehouses in the November election, the final results showed that almost nothing had changed. Yet in California, a Democrat stronghold, Republicans are poised to flip more House seats than in any other state. The results have shown a significant, reversal from the 2018 midterms, which was marked by a rabid anti-Trump furor that helped Democrats flip seven House seats. Now, the GOP is on the verge of taking back four of those seats.”

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Young Kim reclaimed California’s 39th Congressional District from Democrats, Michelle Steel took back California’s 48th District, California’s 21st District will return to the GOP after David Valadao’s victory, and Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Garcia won the state’s 25th Congressional District.

California Republican Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson commented on the wins, “Californians are ready for some change. California Democrats have to own every single failed policy here in California, whether it’s affordability, homelessness of K-12 education. They have shown every single one of those failures. And I think time and time again, they have shown – particularly Governor Newsom – how out of touch they are with working Californians. People were fed up and sick and tired of every single new regulation and just out of touch policy that they tried to put forward in these communities. And we talked about it. We talked about what their failures were and what California Republican solutions are…Here in California, we’ve been the poster child for failed radical left socialist agenda. And we don’t want this to happen to the rest of the country. We’re doing our best to fix things here in California. And I think that if you haven’t already, you should take another look at the California Republican Party.”

Another source, who worked in two California congressional campaigns for the Republicans said, “I think when you have good candidates with a good message of lower taxes and fighting tax hikes, things like that – saying I don’t support defunding the police, that was also, kind of the background of both of these races. I think when you have good candidates with a good fiscal message, that plays anywhere. And it shows that when you have that, you can be outspent two, three, four-to-one and still win at the end of the day.”

Conservatives and Republicans have written California off for years as a corrupt socialist terrordome with medieval public sanitation standards. And no doubt it is that in many, if not most, places. But these four wins show there are some Americans left in California. Hopefully, it’s the beginning of a trend.