Interesting question: given what may happen, should California secede.
Along with Washington and Oregon and a couple others, it now has a vastly superior governmental structure, with non-partisan districts, open primaries and term limits applied universally.
It is also grossly underrepresented and over taxed by the Feds (in effect California subsidies the rest of the country with far less voting power).
To secede legally would be almost impossible, as it would require consent of two-thirds of the other states -- so we may presume any secession will not be very peaceful, although it would not necessarily be violent. It would take consistent non-cooperation by the State and refusal to forward tax revenues and things like that to get the Feds to back down.
We nevertheless see that the underrepresentation of California has had the effect of putting a nut in the White House -- the American people, if California were treated fairly, did NOT elect him.
I wait to see what happens when the Feds decide to ban abortion and contraception, ban marijuana, ban gay marriage and make being gay a crime, remove consumer protection laws, as well as environmental protection, worker safety protection, and so on and on. I also wonder what might happen if Feds go into California and start deporting Latins and Muslims and maybe even Asians.
I see a huge amount of civil disobedience, at a minimum.
Trump has no mandate from the people -- he is President simply because of ugly spots in the American system. He would do well to back off and not try to push anything he promised. Of course if he does he will lose his base. Besides, he doesn't appear to be in touch with reality enough to see the situation he is in, and so is likely to blunder forward blindly.
It would be an interesting thing to watch, if it weren't so scary.
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