Trump’s obsession with Gov. Gavin Newsom, Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is expected to drive him to make Californians’ lives difficult these next four years.

Face it, and I know this is difficult, beautiful people of the Golden State, but we’re not all that popular out in the rest of the country.

For all of California’s physical magnificence, creative genius, entrepreneurial initiative, and, frankly, its coolness, Red America thinks we’re a bunch of pampered woke yoga pronoun Marin County wimps wading through piles of garbage and enabling all sorts of societal ills.

You know, like personal freedom and human dignity.

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That’s a silly caricature, of course. This is what President-elect (gulp) Donald Trump does. He takes reality and magically turns it into surreality, and his followers are more than happy to slip into the rabbit hole.

To be sure, California has had a yin-yang relationship with the rest of the country, but now it faces one of its greatest tests: how to cope with Trumpism. It won’t be anything other than a monumental task.

Upon taking office, Trump will immediately ramp up the mass deportation effort that will almost uniquely most affect California. Getting 11 million people out of the country when it takes 10 days to evacuate California’s side of Lake Tahoe gives you a sense of just how overwhelming this task is.

Just who, precisely, is going to implement this order? ICE? Local law enforcement? The California National Guard? The U.S. military, which the general-fealty seeking........

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