“Leave Now”: Spray-Painted Hate in the California Desert | The New Yorker

Within hours of Donald Trump’s victory in the Presidential election, the state of California had declared itself a defiant rebel alliance, ready for legislative war against the new White House. In the months since, mayors, senators, and Governor Jerry Brown have followed through with bluster and backbone, beating back travel bans, border-wall promises, emissions deregulations, and threats of federal-budget punishments. Calls for California secession have been in the air, too. Why not just make the Leftist capital of the Left Coast—as blue as the Pacific—into its own cold-pressed nation of progressive freethinkers, radical leftists, E.V. drivers, and multiculturalists?