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:32 Recalls, recalls everywhere: a harbinger of things to come?

3:12 What about the outside money in the Shasta Recall?

5:07 This is no longer a battle of political ideas: it is about delegitimizing the government.

6:23 "The Republican Party is gone."

10:06 The bigger picture: this is a global movement

12:36 How will this play out in different areas of California?

14:54 "The average Republican voter in California is no different than the Republican voters in West Virginia, Arkansas or Mississippi."

18:07 What about the remaining GOP stalwarts?

18:42 In the sixties and seventies, the Democratic Party saw a fracturing; is that what's happening in today's GOP?

24:05 What - if anything - can be done to turn this extremism back?

27:04 "We need to get out of the mindset that the GOP is in any way a party of ideas - it is not."

30:43 What happens in the midterms?

35:23 The #WorstWeekCA

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