Because, that's where the power still lies for now. Guess what? 2016 happened - the ballot box. Now it's time for 2018. Consider just these 4 points alone: Korea reconciliation, economy/taxes, ICE/immigration/wall, FISA/coup.
All four topics will dominate the political discussions leading up to November. Trump needs just one more (mid-term) victory under his belt to really begin acting. Any bets on where the US strategic focus then turns?
Would it be the Spratleys? How about Syria/MENA? May I suggest the greatest strategic threat posed to the USA is California in a state of insurrection? Now, from a born/bred native, I can assure everyone that a significant number of residents feel like they are under some form of occupation. The state will get no support for us - we would welcome a federal occupation.
Take out California, and the entire proglib plan for conquest evaporates. It's the lynch pin, and thereby the obvious target for Trump to attack when he is good & ready.
Thanks, semantic, for your succinct distillation re:California as the lynch pin, or as Clausewitz would say, the Schwerpunkt. I'd also like to add a further clarification to the cogent comments Jim Noble made in several unanswered comments up thread.
I believe it is important to understand that when we refer to California it's necessary to remember that California is just as divided as the rest of the country, i.e. there is the ultra leftist urban California, e.g. San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento, and then there is the rest of the state, the northern and eastern rural productive areas.
The "official" state government California is dominated by the votes of the urban liberal/leftists and illegals, while the rest of the state considers themselves "occupied", hence the current "New California" movement to separate/partition from their tyrannical urban masters.
Thus, we need to consider that when "California" talks of secession, that doesn't necessarily mean the whole state. The "New California" areas will likely want to stay with the Union, and will likely join any Federal efforts to subjugate the "rebel" urban areas.
Yes.
Finally.
+10.
The California rebellion is the most important crisis the US has faced since 1933, maybe since 1860.
Nullification and interposition, both derived from Amendments IX and X, arising from the grave.
I graduated from high school in 1968, so I actually learned stuff about America and her history. None of my kids have ever heard of John C. Calhoun, nullification, interposition, the Kentucky and Virginia resolves, or the Corbin Amendment.
Nothing of value is buried forever, and no cause is ever truly lost.
No President could ever let California go. Should that mean war, then war is what we shall have.
NY, NJ, Illinois, and Maryland (again!) are going to want in on the party, but will not have the geographic or population advantages that California has. It will be a once in a century opportunity for the PRC which they will be unlikely to pass up.