Missvain, Wikimedia Commons This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire. By Joel Kotkin Real Clear Wire The first of two reported essays on the issues facing California. Read the second installment here. “From the Beginning, California promised much. While yet barely a name on the map, it entered American awareness as a symbol of renewal. It was a final frontier: of geography and of expectation.” — Kevin Starr, “Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915” California’s economic, academic, media, and political establishment still embraces the notion of the state’s inevitable supremacy. “The future depends on us,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at his first inauguration, “and we will seize this moment.” Others see California as deserving and capable of nationhood, a topic that has resurfaced with Trump’s presidency as…
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