State has passed measures and pored over Project 2025 to establish guardrails to shield residents from a hostile White House

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California prided itself on its resistance to Donald Trump during his first term as president and will hardly have to scramble to assume the same role a second time around.

Indeed, as a bastion of Democratic party strength in a country moving sharply to the right, it has been preparing for this moment for a long time.