Indeed, it’s already hard to imagine blue America accepting a Trump win in 2020 on any terms whatsoever. If the election were not able to be overturned—in the courts, through boxes of “found” ballots, or by some other means—that alone might trigger “Calexit,” followed by other states. The “state compacts” forged between contiguous groupings of blue states during the coronavirus crisis could form the nuclei. But whenever it were to happen, should blue America once again find the federal government in the hands of a red president they despise and whose authority they do not recognize, and
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