In other words, California’s progressive government is one part healthy federalism and one part unhealthy separatism. If (and this is a big if) the state can temper its soft secession ...

But with Donald Trump’s election, many California liberals suddenly have warm words for a budding ballot initiative that has just begun collecting signatures in order to place secession ...

Hagman said that likely means any chance of seceding, as unlikely and improbable as it sounds anyway, is off the table.

To be sure, the likelihood of a successful California secession remains about as likely as Trump stewarding a peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. And the infrastructure pushing ...