Many democRAT politicians across the country get their ideas from what is done in California.
One of the reasons for federalism was that each state could become its own laboratory, trying out ideas which, if successful, could be emulated by others. The left has turned this reason on its proverbial head: the more unsuccessful, useless, and destructive an idea tried by a particular blue state is, the more likely all the other blue states will emulate it, thereby causing the acceleration of destruction.