Trump is America’s problem, not California’s

California Republican strategists have launched a campaign to deny him a victory in June’s presidential primary and thus prevent him from getting the delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination.

An immigrant group declared him “persona non grata” in the state; cities have discussed denying him permits for rallies, given his propensity to incite crowds.

Mexico is our top export market; he slanders Mexicans and wants to build a wall across a border.

[...] why aren’t we up in arms?

Because Californians simply have no time to be up in arms about anything.

More than 70 percent of us can’t do anything to stop Trump in this election; the only people who can vote in the GOP primary here are a dying subspecies of homo Californiens called Republicans.

[...] even though his campaign rhetoric is a threat to our civic environment, the California Environmental Quality Act — a favorite California tool for delaying new projects of any kind — can’t be used to stall his campaign past the primary date.

The idea of stopping Trump also bumps up against one strong California cultural tendency: tolerance for bad celebrity behavior and over-the-top hucksterism.

These days, most difficult California problems — from taxation to cancer immunotherapy — are addressed by asking Sean Parker, the former Facebook president, to figure something out.

[...] if Twitter’s rules against “behavior that harasses intimidates or uses fear to silence another user’s voice” were seriously enforced, Trump’s account would have been suspended long ago.

Heck, if our fervently anti-Trump Legislature really wanted to make life difficult, it could pass a law declaring that California businesses don’t have to serve hatemongers and their campaigns.