You mentioned talented folks no longer want to go out to CA.
Very true. When I graduated as an engineer in 1988, one of my uncles suggested I head out to San Diego, what he described as a garden paradise based on his time in that town in the 1950s. So I went and visited my brother who had just transferred out there. Nice place was it was really just a desert by that time with some nice irrigated sections like balboa park. Good gun clubs though if you went out a ways.
Went back for a 6 month assignment in 1994. Was still able to take my M1A and pistols out. Shortly after I left in 1995 the gun laws changed for the worst, what I did back then would now make me a multiple felon.
Now since then several of my fellow engineers have been asked to relocate out to CA. To a man they have refused. Some because of the high expense of living out there, some because of the draconian gun laws, some because of the fact it is not so friendly for a white male these days. In any case none of the reasons seem to correlate to any policy that Trump supports. He is against illegals, pro-gun and by no means hostile to US industries.
I think your attempt to link the demise of the bear state to Trumps and his intended polices fails on all accounts.
Pete "Puddinhead" Wilson was anti-immigrant, probably pro-gun (he had to have SOME GOP issue other than enhancing Muffy's trust fund) and may have been friendly to industry and he ruined California anyway. BTW, who do you think owns and runs US industries. GOP-E, no? Other obsessively self-centered billionaires? You betcha as Miss Sarah might say.
What do you suppose US industry will look like, to say nothing of US private sector employment and US standard of living after this charlatan triggers a trade war and a depression with his maniacal idea of 45% tariffs on fleeing industries? It won't hurt the GOP-E. They will just continue to move American industries to Mexico (like Ford and Motorola and Carrier) or Bangladesh. They did not become rich by being stupid. The cost of living under Trump's 45% tariff scheme will make today's California cost of living look like the Garden of Economic Eden by comparison. He will be pro-gun in all likelihood because he will have the skin roasted from his flesh if he does not keep that commitment and The Donald is no masochist. Being "against" illegals has its merits after eight years of Obozo's shenanigans but is no substitute for conservatism.
And it is yet another step towards national Wilsonism. The GOP labors under the crushing weight of making enemies wherever it can. Jack Kemp tried to improve the GOP image with blacks (only sixty years ago a reliable Republican voting bloc) but Republicans hooted and howled at Kemp's outreach to blacks and reviled Kemp. More recently, we saw the same with Rand Paul's more clumsy attempts and less wise attempts to woo blacks. We get no more than 10% of their votes in the best of circumstances.
OK, Hispanics have interests often at odds with solidly Demonratic blacks. How can we offend them away from figuring out that their scial conservatism and economic ambition might make them Republicans, if not now, soon enough? We have raised offending them to a high art form. They are the fastest growing minority in the US, at odds with blacks over jobs and neighborhoods and culture but we force them into the party of the blacks.
So, just with those two groups, we have earned the hostility of about 20-25% of the public. We are the pro-Israel party but as Gunnar Myrdal once observed, most American Jews persist in living like Episcopalians while voting like Puerto Ricans. Add the non-Orthodox Jews to the Demonrat coalition. Maybe we can make up for it among the feminazis and babykillers? No. Among the Envirowackos and Globaloney "Warming" afficionados? Ummmm, no. How about peace creeps like Code Pink? No again. Practitioners of Kumbaya as religion? Nope. Lavender queens? Nope again. Where will we get a white (preferably male) non-ethnic majority like determined elections in great grand dads heyday? We won't. We better learn to recruit where we can by asking politely for support and having a range of real answers to Americas manifest problems. AND we better sell that program like even Trump never sold snake oil.
Somewhere it is written: "If my people will humble themselves...." Whoops, that leaves out Trump, doesn't it?
We are even getting slaughtered among Indians (from India), Chinese, Japanese and most Asians other than a substantial number of Vietnamese despite the renowned economic ambition, dedication to learning and genuine middle class and moral values of most of each of those national origin groups. Let's keep on making sure that they feel unwelcome.
If you are hospitalized, you will see how we depend on Asian Third Worlders from Pakistan and India and the Phillipines and other Asian nations. They come here to earn far more than they could in their homelands. They have the opportunity because so many American students are too damn lazy to take on pre-med or math or engineering instead of Gender Studies, Feminaziism, Underwater Basket Weaving, professional Protesting, Sociology or whatever excuse is needed to do four years of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, with a bracing measure of anti-American self-righteousness for only $40-50,000 per year on the tab. It is the new "American" rite of passage.
The young are being brainwashed by American gummint misedjumakashun to be the next generation of Marxist windtunnels. Common Core guarantees that they will be no more competent than necessary to fill out their welfare applications, but they will learn to eagerly abort their babies.
And what are we about to anoint as an alleged solution but the Master of Offensive Vulgarity himself. Most of the Offensive American Community is already unreachably joined to the Demonratic Party at the hip. Just WHO will elect The Donald in November? Not enough voters, I "can tell you that."
With his gross absence of manners and worse mouth, Trump is even alienating prim and proper Mainline Protestants, historically the backbone of the GOP, and civilized Catholics and Jews and Evangelicals along with them. It is not yet prohibited that our candidate be gentlemen.
Trump had nothing to do with the demise of the Golden State but he wants to take that demise national until we all have blood coming out of our wherevers. So long as he thinks he can become emperor, what does he care?