Repeal Prop. 14 to Restore Democracy in California

The California State flag flies beside a sign for its sister city Split outside City Hall, in Los Angeles, California on January 27, 2017. A campaign by Californians to secede from the rest of the country over Donald Trump's election is gaining steam with suporters given the green light to start collecting signatures for the measure to be put to a vote. / AFP / Mark RALSTON Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

“I am trying to imagine under what novel features despotism may appear in the world,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his immortal “Democracy in America.” If he could return to our country nearly 200 years later and come to California, he wouldn’t need to stretch his imagination.