In addition to having unified control of Washington, Republicans will head into 2017 with total control of 25 state governments – holding the state House, Senate, and governor’s mansion – a historic high. Yet, the unexpected GOP wave that swept the country on Election Day stopped and receded at the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with California turning a deeper shade of blue.

Hillary Clinton won California by the largest margin in 80 years, numerous tax-hiking ballot measures were approved by voters, and Democrats captured a supermajority in the state Senate, and possibly the state Assembly as well, depending on the outcome of a few yet-to-be-determined races. Clinton even won the historical Republican stronghold of Orange County, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has done so since the Great Depression.

California progressives and the state’s ruling political class have responded to the 2016 election results with some combination of shock, dismay, and contempt for what they see as a nation politically and electorally zigging while the Golden State is zagging. Prominent California liberals, including major donors, are so appalled by Donald Trump’s election as president and the fact that he will have a Republican-controlled Congress to work with, that they are calling for California to secede from the union.

The prospect of Calexit (also dubbed Caleavefornia or Califrexit, depending on your druthers), sounds far-fetched. Yet, it appears the effort could have the financial support necessary to put the question to voters on the 2018 ballot.

Hyperloop co-founder and Uber investor Shervin Pishevar announced on election night, via Twitter, that he will help finance a Calexit Leave campaign, tweeting that he will support a “legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation.”