A Fictional Calexit Scenario Offers a Real Warning
Conservative Writer David French Argues That if Americans Can’t Live by Pluralism, the Country Could Split Apart
It was gun violence that finally drove California to secede from the United States.
A series of mass shootings culminated in a savage, Columbine-style attack on a Sacramento-area school that killed 35 kids and two cops. The shooters used semi-automatic rifles and pistols with large-capacity magazines—weaponry that had been illegal in California until the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the state’s gun control laws. Californians raged that the justices—and the federal government—had effectively murdered their children.
That anger soon spiraled into a cold civil war, with California’s elected …
