Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon warned Friday that California may attempt to secede from the United States in the next decade if Republicans do not attempt to reassume control of the state.
“If you do not roll this back … 10 or 15 years from now the folks in Silicon Valley and the progressive left in this state are going to try to secede from the Union,” Bannon told a group of college Republicans in Anaheim, Calif.
Bannon pointed to the state’s defiance of federal mandates including its protections for so-called sanctuary cities, which limit how local authorities can cooperate with federal immigration agents.
“We are going to enforce federal law. You’ve nullified the sanctuary cities law in this state. In fact, you’re a sanctuary state,” he told the crowd.
The self-described populist and executive chairman of far-right Breitbart News compared the “dangerous” path California is heading down to a similar one South Carolina tried to take nearly 200 years ago: Dismissing federal law and moving toward secession.
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