California will be more of an Estonia or Latvia than a Belarus or Kazakhstan when Trump's Nationalistic pull causes the nation to start to fracture like what happened in the 80s in the USSR.
The population and significance of California is far more than the Baltic states to Russia. With that said, I'm seriously wanting California to declare its independence as a new nation. A new California Republic would be greater than anything California could achieve as a state.
I would love for California to seriously consider independence (hell, I'd even fight for independence if Trump wins) because our interests are totally underrepresented in Washington. Just think what we could do if we weren't sending a large percentage of our wealth to the federal government to subsidize small, economically weak states (that tend to hate us anyway)!
