Stephen Schmidt is a political strategist who worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign and Democratic campaigns, like Dean Phillips. In this conversation Steve explained why "What’s coming is something we’ve seen before in the country. It’s menacing. It’s frightening, it’s a form of, a derivative of, fascism of the 1930’s, and it has to be contested."

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