America is a meta-democracy, made up of 50 partially contained sub-republics. California is the most populous, prosperous, and—in the face of the Trump administration's hard-right policies—prone to protest.

Yesterday, in his State of the State address, Governor Jerry Brown emphasized those first two points ("This is California, we are the sixth most powerful economy in the world, one eighth of Americans live here"), before laying into his promise to defend the state's protective immigration laws, expansive health care coverage, and globally-renowned climate change regulations from Trump's anti-all-of-the-above agenda. But, the state's budget—in many ways, its engine for defiance—is pretty reliant on money from gallows-bound programs like the Affordable Care Act. Also, as Brown himself frequently points out, California's fortunes are closely tied to the stock market. La résistance could fall victim to la recession.