Said Ben Shapiro on his Wednesday show: “On a national level, why should we care about California? Well, because what it actually presages is not just politics in California. What it presages is a question, whether we actually do want to remain part of the same body politic. If we do want to remain part of the same body politic, we’re going to have to construct a system of a federal government in which Texas can be Texas and California can be California. However, California has to let Texas be Texas. And herein lies the rub. Because the federal government has no interest, when run by Democrats, in allowing Texas to be Texas. They’d like Texas to be California. And if that’s the case, what you’re going to end up with is a fairly ugly split between states that wish to be left alone and states that wish to run their business from the top level of the federal government.”