It sounds absolutely daft: the bluest of states governed by a Ken-doll liberal, where trash, human waste, and the homeless line the streets, where the GOP lost seven House seats in 2018, and where the state legislature is a Democrat rubber-stamp body. Will they go Republican in the fall elections?

It is the stuff of GOP fantasy and Democrat nightmares. For the Democrats the idea is lethal for one reason: without California they cannot win the presidency and could even lose the House. The math is simple. Like Texas for the GOP, the Democrats need the large state electoral college count of 55 to put their people over the top and into the Oval Office. Without it the numbers don’t add up and there are no fightable states for the Democrats, or combinations of such, to make up for the deficit. White House adviser Peter Navarro talked with Sean Hannity about this on “Hannity” Thursday night.

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Hannity: “Now they’re talking about never opening Los Angeles until there’s a cure? Well, if they want to do that, I guess then they’re going to have to bear the brunt of the cost of that but can’t we learn from the states that did well than from the states that flopped and fell on their face?”

Navarro, a Californian, agreed with Hannity: “California is my home state. I think it’s going to become a red state with that kind of leadership. The reality is that if we don’t open this economy back up we’re not going to have an economy. And here’s the other reality that the medical doctors haven’t been telling you. Yeah, the China virus kills directly. But if we keep our economy shut down we’re not only gonna lose trillions of dollars in wealth [and] economic activity, that China-virus shock to the economy kills as well—suicides, drug abuse, depression [emphasis added].”

Navarro continued: “And guess what? All those people who couldn’t go to the hospital during this lockdown to get procedures for their heart, the kidneys and all of that? That kills too. It’s time to get back to work. We know a lot more than we did when this first hit us, when it came in like a lightning bolt from China because they hid the virus from us.”

“We can do this,” Navarro said about getting the U.S. economic recovery from the virus. “Don’t forget one thing: This is the ‘Jobs President,’ Sean, and this is where we’re gonna get to the other side of this. Innovation, manufacturing — right here in the good old U.S. of A. That’s our mission.”

Before you logically torch Navarro’s thinking on the state flip, consider that the GOP just flipped a U.S. House seat that had been held by the Democrats for a generation. There have been demonstrations against the governor and his Democrat policies for weeks all across the state. Californians love the beaches, their psychic reading parlors, the yoga studios, the health food emporiums, and their crystal energy-infused lifestyles. All of which have been curtailed and/or shut down by the Democrat governor and abetted by Democrat U.S. House members and the Democrat-controlled state House and Senate.

Is the flip likely? No. Is it possible? Yes. Or think of it this way: Just as possible as a guy becoming president who was previously best known to the media-watching public as the host of a business reality show.