> certainly beats Germany at innovation

fair enough

> maternal mortality

Don't know about California, but the US beats Europe in the sense of having 3x maternal mortality

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/maternal-mortality-mdgs?c...

> income, and wealth

fair enough

> comparable gross product

higher in the US, though a lot of that is because of more hours worked

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-...

> life expectancy

US has stagnated recently, and now about 2 years less

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...