Calexit

John Fund, a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, penned a piece in the National Journal where he said it would be better for California to split into several states than to become an independent nation.

This proposal to split California into several states has been floated in the past, as Fund points out. Notably, a failed 2016 ballot initiative funded by venture capitalist Tim Draper tried to split the state into six new states.