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Then what will the people do? other than violence, there needs to be a way to address this. so why do you think so many republicans in state houses and state senates claim to be standing up for the constitution by opposing the constitution? that is, by opposing convention of states in article 5, which is the second way provided by the framers and the ratifyers to amend the constitution. >> there is two reasons to that. you know, you either have fear or courage, and what we see today is a lot of fear in our country. and leadership requires courage to do the right thing, and so you also have a l...

Dramatic upheaval and reversal in fortunes where republicans really took command of state houses and state legislatures and the like. for democrats, 35 is not a bad number a year in, but they've got a long way to go to reverse that trend. >> i think with seats like this, and when you're talking about state legislatures and state senates, enthusiasm matters. if a party has the enthusiasm to start flipping those seats in a major way, particularly at the point swings we've seen in a dozen or so or more of these seats, that's not a small thing. enthusiasm is always like this really hard to define ...

I think over thanksgiving, what i would like people to do, you're sitting around the table. last year you had to deal with the right wing and he's happy and trump got elected. put in at the kids' table on thursday. don't bother him. let him have his turkey. everybody else will say who do we know that can run on this town? you got to run locally. if we don't flip the state houses this year and 2020 when they take the 2020 census, we're going to get gerrymandered again and we'll be stuck until 2032 so next year in 2020, we've got to get these state houses and state senates in the hands of democr...

>> right. >> i'm serious. >> 100 signatures and $10. >> you're on the ballot. i think over thanksgiving, what i would like people to do, you're sitting around the table. last year you had to deal with the right wing and he's happy and trump got elected. put in at the kids' table on thursday. don't bother him. let him have his turkey. everybody else will say who do we know that can run on this town? you got to run locally. if we don't flip the state houses this year and 2020 when they take the 2020 census, we're going to get jergerrymandered an and we'll be stuck until 2032 so next year in 2020...

Control to potentially flip this year in 11 state senates and in 7 state assemblies. in the vast majority of those they expect to flip they are republican controlled now, which means if they flip, they're ready to flip to democrat, if the now expected blue wave comes in just at the right time and the right way. that's another part of the bad news that the republican party i think can largely blame on the presidential candidacy of donald trump. so i get that. but what we reported here on monday night that has now all of a sudden come to fruition as truly bad news for the republican party brough...