California may be driven to draining their own swamp and wrestling their version of the Deep State out of the ooze.
California as Venezuela is not a pretty picture. The current and past few state administrations have steady eroded, if not completely collapsed, much of the wealth and potential the state was naturally endowed with.
California was once the Golden State, and it can be again. Somehow, the infection has to be drained from its system before it can again function at the level it once did.
I see no trajectory towards that end.