Governor Gavin Newsom is an awful neoliberal, but he's also responding to reality of the failure of the US gov't

A step toward California secession is a progressive step for humanity. It's way down the list as Plan E, but everything else failed so why not https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-09/california-declares-independence-from-trump-s-coronavirus-plans

There's a case to be made. The US is not a democracy; billionaires, gerrymandering, and court-stacking will prevent the left from winning electoral power

Secession should be taken seriously as an option. The USA is a settler colony anyway and the 50 states are totally artificial