By Thomas Elias

For every action, says one principle of both physics and politics, there is a reaction. So when President Donald Trump threatened to put conditions on disaster aid in the wake of California’s unprecedented January firestorms, there was a reaction.

Many Californians, according to a poll taken during those Southern California blazes, the most devastating in American history in dollars’ worth of damages, appear more favorable than before to the idea of divorce, or at least some form of separation, from the rest of the nation.

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