California was a good strategic move for us. Here, we will be insulated from most of the worst of the decline Trump will force on our nation. Not all of it by any means. But in many ways, California is kind of its own country and that benefit of insularity and size is certainly a great thing now as we go into a long bleak time of diminution and corruption.

To re-tool something Mencken allegedly said, the electorate voted for this cataclysm and they are going to get it good and hard.

No one will be spared, but being a bit protected is better than nothing.