They call it #Calexit. It will prove to be a flash in the pan. But still:

And California does have the world's sixth-largest economy. And the "Yes California Independence Campaign" did hold a meetup last night in Sacramento.

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On Sunday, the weekend before the election, the New York Times decided to give op-ed space to the chancellor of the International League of Monarchists—a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy and a UKIP candidate—to cite Edward Gibbon and implore America to give up the vote.

Hereditary rule wasn't exactly on the agenda at the framing of the Constitution. But If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, two families will have ruled America for 24 of the last 32 years. (This would have been guaranteed if Jeb Bush had prevailed in his primary.)

Then again, politics have always been a family affair in the US: half the first Congress served alongside a close relative. From the 19th-century Adams to the Udalls, Bushes, Murkowskis, Kennedys, and even the ascendant identical Castro twins, the tendency continues for Americans to elect families, perhaps because their names act as brands to orient voters through our thicket of elections.

Would a CEO of America be more like a monarch or a president? You can get rid of them, but their power is closer to absolute. Let's hope we don't have to find out how this harebrained Silicon Valley fetish for total corporate despotism would qualify.